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harrowing ['hærәuiŋ]

a. 痛心的, 悲惨的

[医] 神经纤维松解法

The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.
那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。
This ground harrows well.
这块地很好耙。
She told us a harrowing tale of misfortunes.
她告诉我们一个悲惨的故事。

harrowing

[ adj ]
extremely painful
<adj.all>

Harrow \Har"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harrowed}
(h[a^]r"r[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Harrowing}.] [OE. harowen,
harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See {Harrow}, n.]
1. To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking
clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as,
to harrow land.

Will he harrow the valleys after thee? --Job xxxix.
10.

2. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate;
to torment or distress; to vex.

My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. --Rowe.

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul. --Shak.

Republican Bush kept a light schedule Saturday, meeting with Armando Valladares, author of "Against All Hope," a harrowing account of his years as a political prisoner in Cuba.
Last year, the NRA ran a newspaper ad featuring a harrowing photo of a frightened woman and asserting that a 20-year-old American woman has a 72% chance of being raped, robbed or assaulted in her lifetime.
Two Scandinavian relief workers came home to the emotional embraces of their sobbing families on Wednesday and recounted their harrowing abduction in Lebanon and 25 days of fear and captivity.
While there are plenty of familiar elements here, and harrowing scenes involving the woman's tormented children, this is sturdy, unsensationalistic (as these things go) drama abetted by Pamela Reed's excellent performance as the mother on the lam.
He won his party's nomination after a harrowing primary battle against Ms Geraldine Ferraro, vice-presidential candidate in 1984. The primary contest, with smears to the fore, was termed 'gutter politics' by Governor Mario Cuomo of New York.
In interview after interview, she recounts harrowing tales of afternoons spent behind locked doors while kids screamed and pounded outside, or of little ones pasting mailing labels all over walls as mommy is hostage to a vital phone call.
For the opposition, the 18-day popular revolt that has brought their compatriots a heady dose of freedom has been a harrowing round of endless meetings to make sure the uprising stays on course.
Big Board printouts of the morning's trading paint a harrowing picture of a market in disarray.
Earlier this year Mr De Benedetti admitted that the company had paid more than L10bn (Pounds 4.1m) to government officials to win contracts. Even Mr De Benedetti, however, admits to some harrowing moments.
In the Netherlands, a Dutch Catholic University on Tuesday canceled an invitation to Glemp, citing what it called his "harrowing" anti-Jewish statements.
In Novella Nelson's production, Taylor's hilarious and harrowing reinvention of the family drama for contemporary urban Black life exploded with imagination and verbal dexterity.
A long, harrowing trip to and from work is no longer remarkable in the new suburban metropolis; it is merely the price that must be paid for a single family house.
More details emerged about the harrowing ordeal of the survivors.
The old chief is bitter, and the sailor gradually reveals the harrowing danger to which he and his shipmates were exposed.
It is estimated that up to 1 percent of Americans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a mental illness brought on by especially harrowing experiences.
Stalker said he decided to write the book "as a purge for me and my family" after the harrowing experience they underwent.
State environmental workers have been harrowing the sand to expose the oil to air so it can evaporate.
A tremendous surge in air traffic since the industry was deregulated in 1978 has led to overcrowded airports, persistent flight delays and a harrowing series of crashes and close calls.
Yet it makes a gripping story, and a harrowing one, which shows the cost that the productions of the mind exact, and how much human agony goes into their making.
Biggles the terrier was headed for a reunion with his owner after two harrowing months as a hostage in Kuwait and a daring desert escape.
Their grueling, sometimes harrowing trip to freedom was a memory.

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