saddening是什么意思？

saddening

英['sædənɪŋ] 美['sædənɪŋ]

• n. （初轧头道的）轻压或小压下量轧制，小变形锻造；
• v. （使某人）悲哀，忧愁( sadden的现在分词 )；

例句

• Even those characteristics of your life which I have just enumerated are extremely saddening. 甚至连我刚才描述的你们那些生活特点也极为可悲.
• It is saddening to see that relations between the two countries should have deteriorated to the present state. 两国关系恶化到今天这个地步,是令人痛心的.
• I find public squalor very saddening. 公共场所的肮脏污秽让我感到非常悲哀。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使悲哀;使悲伤;使伤心
  If something saddens you, it makes you feel sad.
  例句
  The cruelty in the world saddens me incredibly. 人世间的残酷无情让我感到无比悲哀。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom;
  "a gloomy outlook""gloomy news"