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单词 startlingly
释义
startlingly
adverb
uk
/ˈstɑː.təlɪŋ.li/us
/ˈstɑːr.t̬əlɪŋ.li/
in a way that issurprisingand oftenslightlyworrying:
Highschooldropoutratesare startlingly high.
startlinglypoorresults
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  • Theinformationcan be startlinglydetailed.
  • He ispassionate,wealthyand startlinglyhandsome.
  • You have tounderstandtherulesof thegame, which can be startlingly different from what you are used to.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Surprising and shocking
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  • amazing
  • amazingly
  • astonish
  • astonishing
  • blinding
  • dynamite
  • earth-shattering
  • earth-shatteringly
  • earthshakingly
  • overtake
  • shock tactics
  • shocking
  • springsomethingonsomeone
  • stagger
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  • staggeringly
  • stun
  • the darnedest thingidiom
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(Definition ofstartlinglyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstartlingly

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He was tenured in astartlinglyfast four years!
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He begins by presenting astartlinglynovel definition of history.
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But when examined closely, they provedstartlinglyelusive.
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Thisstartlinglycandid speech thus reinforces the conclusions reached throughout this paper.
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This is astartlinglyhigh proportion, and the correlations were only marginally weaker when they excluded participants who had used regularly but were now abstaining.
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Some of her most startling movements arestartlinglyprecisely because the provenance of their contours is not easily recognizable.
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Of all the goods on offer, priority went to the car which changed shapestartlinglyas the decade progressed.
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Morestartlingly, it appears to betray ignorance of some elementary requirements that must be met for a language contact hypothesis to be at all plausible.
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Nevertheless, it has within it somestartlinglygood contributions.
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If the collection evidences any one deficiency, it is that it does not present anystartlinglyoriginal theoretical perspectives on the issues it addresses.
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In fact, their factor effect for on use isstartlinglylow (.14).
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Litigation as an aspect of business life is stillstartlinglyabsent from monographs devoted to particular merchant groups.
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Instead, the horror of it all is suddenly andstartlinglyundermined.
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Most geneticists will know that the enthusiastic response from an everincreasing number of laboratories has led to astartlinglyrapid growth of knowledge on the worm.
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It madestartlinglyaccurate demographic forecasts at the time, and drew attention to the ways in which needs, and policy responses, had to be seen as inter-related.
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