touching的意思|touching的解释-里氏词典

touching [tʌtʃɪŋ]

a. 动人的, 令人同情的

touching

[ noun ]

the event of something coming in contact with the body

<noun.event>

he longed for the touch of her hand

the cooling touch of the night air

the act of putting two things together with no space between them

<noun.act>

at his touch the room filled with lights

[ adj ]

arousing affect

<adj.all>

the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene

poignant grief cannot endure forever

his gratitude was simple and touching

Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic
origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G.
zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G.
ziehen, akin to E. tug. See {Tuck}, v. t., {Tug}, and cf.
{Tocsin}, {Toccata}.]
1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against;
to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or
rest on.

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touched lightly. --Milton.

2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Nothing but body can be touched or touch. --Greech.

3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.

The god, vindictive, doomed them never more
Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore.
--Pope.

4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.]

Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. --Shak.

5. To relate to; to concern; to affect.

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. --Shak.

6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. --Chaucer.

7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the
books. --Pope.

8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to
melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity,
compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

What of sweet before
Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.
--Milton.

The tender sire was touched with what he said.
--Addison.

9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke
to with the pencil or brush.

The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn
right. --Pope.

10. To infect; to affect slightly. --Bacon.

11. To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch
it. --Moxon.

12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an
instrument of music.

[They] touched their golden harps. --Milton.

13. To perform, as a tune; to play.

A person is the royal retinue touched a light and
lively air on the flageolet. --Sir W.
Scott.

14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. `` No decree
of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse
his free will,'' --Milton.

15. To harm, afflict, or distress.

Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do
us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. --Gen.
xxvi. 28, 29.

16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree;
to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the
past participle.

She feared his head was a little touched. --Ld.
Lytton.

17. (Geom.) To be tangent to. See {Tangent}, a.

18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

19. To compare with; to be equal to; -- usually with a
negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could
touch an open fire. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

20. To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch
one for a loan; hence, to steal from. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{To touch a sail} (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind
that its weather leech shakes.

{To touch the wind} (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the
wind as possible.

{To touch up}, to repair; to improve by touches or
emendation.

Touching \Touch"ing\ (t[u^]ch"[i^]ng), a.
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. --
{Touch"ing*ly}, adv.

Touching \Touch"ing\, prep.
Concerning; with respect to.

Now, as touching things offered unto idols. --1 Cor.
viii. 1.

Touching \Touch"ing\, n.
The sense or act of feeling; touch.

Pernilla Ostergren is a touching Ophelia, a child-woman who remains on stage for much of evening, a forlorn witness to most of the debauchery.
The president said "the most touching moment" of his visit was when he talked to the doctor who rescued young Julio Berumen from a crushed car.
But 35 minutes later, after touching on the need to protect cultural artifacts and his concerns over population growth, Liu Bingsen ended up with a call for eugenics.
They had to paddle 200 miles upstream on the Paraguay River in Brazil because high winds had blown water plants into a solid mass that blocked their path, and later spent 17 days without touching shore on the same river because of floods.
Bush also read a touching letter written by PFC James Markwell, a 20-year-old Army Ranger medic who died during the first hours of the invasion.
"It's really very touching.
In his funny and touching "The Halfway Diner," John Sayles successfully creates a narrator who is not only a woman, but a Chicano woman.
"I think it's really wonderful that these children can do that," Alliata said. "It's very touching." Mass mailings by 100 senators during 1987-88 cost taxpayers more than $52.7 million, the congressional watchdog Common Cause says in a report.
There is a touching account in a book by John Bennie of a weekend by the Test, at which Chamberlain was a guest.
The bicentennial bash in honor of the French Revolution peaked with a parade that featured moonwalking Americans, Scottish bagpipers, Soviet tanks spewing confetti and a touching reminder of the crackdown in China.
The spring seats on the Continentals are meant to prevent the spring from touching the rear tire if the spring breaks while in service, it said.
Long before the clarification was issued, though, bond prices in Tokyo had plunged, touching off a similar decline in stock prices.
When five people were indicted on charges of sexually abusing children at a day-care center, the news reverberated through this town of 5,800, seemingly touching everyone.
"They feel no pressure whatsoever," von Raab said. "They are happily living out their lives as feudal barons in the hills of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia and no one's touching them, including the United States.
Ladies Home Journal featured the Save His Life Diet for wives with chubby hubbies and a touching first-person account from the mother of a transsexual, titled "My Son, My Daughter."
Brian Murray makes a comical yet touching Don Pedro, the nobleman who instigates the matching up of Benedick with Beatrice and Claudio with Hero.
They make backing into a bay less of a problem but, with rear bumper touching the wall, you find the front one is still up to a metre beyond that of a lesser car parked alongside. The 300SE rides superbly.
An hour later, the gas was ignited by sparks from a nearby construction workers' shed, touching off a fire that quickly spread back to the refinery, they said.
Pavlova gave a more touching interpretation - pure, eloquent line; silken phrasing - than I have ever known from her before.
Manabilang told reporters Dipatuan's bodyguards and about 50 other supporters opened fire, touching off the 25-minute gun battle. The mayor's defenders fled after military reinforcements arrived.
'It's too early to call the stock a buy - we have to wait and see,' he said. Among supermarket groups, Park Food saw improved sales and earnings and the shares climbed 3 to 294p, after touching 303p.
An inmate armed with a rifle and a handgun escaped late Saturday in a prison ambulance after briefly taking a guard hostage, touching off a manhunt in three central Ohio counties, authorities said.
Sony ended lower in heavy trading after touching a record high, in what traders said was a demonstration of the market's continued interest in high-priced smaller issues.
One of the two musicians keeps up a lively, varied supply of music on Indian drums and guitar. If you have seen some previous Tara productions, you may well find Heer Ranjha touching, entertaining, but occasionally disappointing.
She paused at each step to pray or to kiss the crucifix of her rosary after touching it to a spot where Christ's blood supposedly fell.
On Friday, computer-guided selling pushed prices below what had been support levels, touching off stop-loss selling that accelerated the decline.
But by touching individual components of the car on the screen with the pen, the machine automatically records the parts that need replacing.
Rose denied touching the woman and his lawyers described Ms. Kantor as "a potentially dangerous rock 'n' roll groupie." Rose eventually got a restraining order preventing Ms. Kantor from coming near him, his wife, Erin, or their guests.
With this article, an AP correspondent begins a series of reports on how the developing disaster is touching one such family.
The July contract closed yesterday at Pounds 622, after touching Pounds 617 a tonne during the day's trading.

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