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单词 shocking
释义 shocking
I. adjective
Etymology: from present participle of shock (IV)
1. : causing to shake or tremble : stunning
 < repeated shocking blows to the head — W.A.D.Anderson >
2. : extremely startling and offensive : novel and distasteful through being or appearing immoral, horrifying, immoderate, reprehensible
 < persons of old-fashioned views might regard this as a very shocking admission — Rebecca West >
 < solecism of this kind … would have seemed a shocking thing to so accurate a scholar — L.P.Smith >
3. : having a color tone that is striking, vivid, bright, or intense
 < shocking pink >
Synonyms: see fearful
II. adverb
: shockingly
 < a shocking bad orator and altogether deficient in humanity — Norman Douglas >
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