汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 令人发指
令人发指 (令人髮指)
to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
Make people's hair stand up / Describes that makes people extremely angry
《庄子.盗跖》"谒者入通,盗跖闻之大怒,目如明星,发上指冠。"《史记.刺客列传》"太子及宾客知其事者,皆白衣冠以送之。至易水之上,既祖,取道,高渐离击筑,荆轲和而歌,为变征之声,士皆垂泪涕泣。又前而为歌曰'风萧萧兮易水寒,壮士一去兮不复还!'复为羽声忼慨,士皆瞋目,发尽上指冠。"后以"令人发指"形容使人愤慨到了极点。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他们能做出令人发指的事情来。

They are capable of the most heinous acts.

令人发指的是,他们教唆儿童参与犯罪活动。

It is shocking that they involved children in the crime.

法官称那次袭击为令人发指的罪行。

The judge described the attack as an abominable crime.

我觉得他太无耻了……我认为简直是令人发指

I thought he was shameless... I thought it was appalling.

这些人有许多是被惨无人道、令人发指地杀死的。

Many of these people died brutal, horrible deaths.

本文罗列了十大在人体上进行的丧尽天良、令人发指的实验。

This is a list of the 10 most evil and unethical experiments carried out on humans.

英格兰的守护神乔治的标志性成就便是派遣一个令人发指的动物。

The signature achievement of England's patron saint, George, is dispatching one of the heinous creatures.

“他的行径极端残忍,他折磨我们的孩子的手段令人发指,”霍伊特说。

"What he did was so horrendous, how he tortured our children," Hoyt said.

在1940年,他们被苏联强行吞并,这是促成里宾特洛甫条约最清晰和最令人发指的证明之一。

Their forcible annexation into the Soviet Union in 1940 was one of the clearest and most outrageous consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

你们将他们那身负重伤的可怜孩子的照片放到多家美国报纸的头条上,这种缺乏同情心和常识的行为令人发指

Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling.