rending n. 渲染
v. 分裂;劈开(rend的ing形式)
- Suddenly, the cat lets out a heart-rending yowl.
突然,那猫发出一声撕心的嚎叫。 - Do you remember the heart-rending scene in the film where the hero says his final farewells to his dying wife?
你还记得那部电影中主人公向他临终的妻子诀别的那个令人心碎的镜头吗? - " Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- "It's getting hot!
过后,当人们听到那种阴惨到令人心碎的稀疏或密集的枪声时,那老板又说:“认起真来了吗?
rending[ adj ]
resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree
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the tree split with a great ripping soundheard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward
Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r[e^]nt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries.
renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to
push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r[ae]na to rob,
plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor.
ranna.]
1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to
tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock
in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. --Shak.
2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
xi. 11.
{To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.
Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
crack; split.