hair-raising

音標發(fā)音

From a run-down old storefront came a hair-raising shriek followed by the sound of a body falling to the ground.
從一個破舊的老店里忽然傳來一聲令人毛骨悚然的尖叫，接著聽到一個人倒在地上的聲音。
There are some hair-raising, hardly maintained roads in the area - which bus and truck drivers have to negotiate to get to small villages.
那里有令人毛骨悚然，幾乎從未被維護的公路。為了到達一些小山村巴士和卡車司機不得不冒險駛上這條公路。
The reasons that the government gave for applying a steeper haircut to the first batch of assets that NAMA has bought are hair-raising.
對于NAMA購買第一筆資產(chǎn)的價格，政府進行了大規(guī)模的削減。對此，政府給出了令人發(fā)指的理由。

This is a hair-raising story, but also, I think, a wishful fantasy—that the children might die without crying.
NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time
But Dr Bensimon's work has certainly made the task of disentangling tiny molecular structures less hair-raising than it used to be.
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A hair-raising experience, event, or story is very frightening but can also be exciting.