| 单词 | achingly |
| 释义 | achingly (eɪkɪŋli ) adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb] You can use achingly for emphasis when you are referring to things that create feelings of wanting something very much, but of not being able to have it. [written, emphasis] ...three achingly beautiful ballads. Collocations: achingly beautiful It had a magnificent setting, a choir with achingly beautiful voices, incense hanging thickly over the congregation and a vicar who could carry an audience. Times, Sunday Times Best of all, he listens to a university choir sing an achingly beautiful version of traditional fado music. Times, Sunday Times While his designs are often achingly beautiful, they can also be puzzling. Houston Chronicle It's the flagrantly messy, narratologically cockeyed, comic, visceral, and, in this instance, achingly beautiful, painterly realm of experimental theatre. Times, Sunday Times He would regularly produce jaw-droppingly, achingly beautiful performances. Times, Sunday Times Achingly familiar to anyone with small people, it may be even more so soon. Times, Sunday Times If you too are approaching middle age, most of this will sound achingly familiar. The Sun Take the case of the old: the figures are now achingly familiar. Times, Sunday Times The dazzling goodies online can make real life seem pedestrian, achingly slow. Times,Sunday Times The family thought they would soon be reunited but bureaucracy has been achingly slow in wrapping up the issue. Times, Sunday Times On another night, when we were the only diners present, the service was achingly slow. Times, Sunday Times It will be an achingly slow process - the horrific statistics tell you that - but it can only move in a better direction. Times, Sunday Times There's an achingly slow build-up, a breathtaking rickety bridge-crossing climax and a silly, hallucinatory finale. Times, Sunday Times |
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