hair-raising [
'hɛr`rezɪŋ]
a. 令人毛骨悚然的, 令人恐惧的
- What a hair-raising story!
多恐怖的故事啊! - Being chased by a mugger is a hair-raising experience.
被强盗追赶真是让人毛骨悚然的经历。 - He told us some hair-raising stories about his exploits as a mountaineer.
他给我们讲述他当登山运动员时建功立业的一些令人毛骨耸然的事。
hair-raising[ adj ]
extremely alarming
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- Gravity and muscle, combined with hair-raising 60ft drops down helical tubes a metre in diameter will provide the thrills.
- For three decades, East Germans have been making hair-raising escapes from their country.
- The Nikkei plunged a hair-raising 1300 points within a little more than an hour of the opening.
- 'But we've heard plenty of hair-raising gossip about some particularly scandalous cases.'
- Upjohn Co. has enlisted a powerful new partner in the hair-raising business.
- Radio sports director Al Hacko thought he made a safe bet, but it turned out to be a hair-raising experience.
- It is proper to view his interpretation as something like a dress-rehearsal under hair-raising conditions.
- Ms. Dudack expects a hair-raising time for investors.
- And here, in a market where dawn raids, proxy battles and megabuyouts are considered hair-raising tales from another planet, it's about as exciting as things get.