| 单词 | startling |
| 释义 | startling (once / 419 pages) adj Something that's startling is so unexpected that it shocks or surprises you. It would be startling to open your front door and see a clown standing there. Startling events or circumstances aren't necessarily frightening, though they can be. A surprise party, if it's planned right, is startling, and it can be startling the first time you meet your best friend's identical twin sister. Alarm clocks, smoke alarms, and barking dogs can all be equally startling. They startle you — and startle comes from start, with its Old English root styrtan, "to leap up." WORD FAMILYstartling: startlingly+/startle: startled, startles, startling/startled: startledly USAGE EXAMPLESSo the truly startling thing about Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve fiasco is that she planned to perform “Emotions” at all. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) For that startling race, Whitlock’s training log showed that he did 43 training runs of three hours apiece. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) His willingness to be guilelessly himself was startling simply because we were accustomed to celebrities dissembling in order to preserve their market-tested likability. Time(Dec 28, 2016) adj so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm Sydney's startling new Opera House startling news startling earthquake shocks Syn surprising causing surprise or wonder or amazement |
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