a startling discovery
惊人的发现
startling blue eyes
蓝盈盈的眼睛
1.可惊的,吓人的
1.“startle”的现在分词
1.surprising, or very unusual
1.The present participle of startle
1.In her eyes was a color so startling, so unpredicted, that it almost threw him into a kind of battlefield shock.
她眼睛的颜色是如此迷人，如此出人意料，几乎将他置于战场上的那种震撼中。
2.Reading The Little Prince with her was a startling and wonderful hiatus from the rather dry business English classes that I taught so often.
我教的课往往是干巴巴的商务英语课，同她一起阅读《小王子》，成了一个令人惊喜的出口。
3.A occasional, Linda found a startling fact: the original sea bright was the biological father of starfish.
一次机缘下，林大发现了一个惊人事实：原来海亮竟是海星的亲生父亲！
4.I awoke to a green so startling as to be almost electric, as if spring were simply a matter of flipping a switch.
我一觉醒来，发现外面绿意喜人，简直让人诧异。春天好像开了闸一样一下子就来到了眼前。
5.When a principle is asserted which establishes such a precedent, and may lead to such results, it is, to say the least, startling.
提出这么一个原则，建议这么一个前提，而得到这么一个结论，就是退一步说，也是令人惊骇的。
6.It's startling to see that this is not always the case.
“但很惊讶地发现未必总是如此”。
7.One of its most startling predictions is how fast Asia's populations are expected to grow within the next nine years.
它的一个最惊人的预测是未来九年亚洲人口预计增长速度之快。
8.ONE of the startling features of India's economic progress is how much opposition it stirs at home.
印度经济发展令人瞠目的特点之一就是它在国内激起的反对之多。
9.This brings us to the startling conclusion that out of every hundred marriages in this country, perhaps ninety are unsatisfactory.
这也就回到了我们开篇的结论：也许这个国家的每100对夫妻之中，有90对自觉不满的婚姻生活。
10.The change is all the more startling when Georgia's fate is contrasted with that of other former Soviet republics, including Russia.
当我们把格鲁吉亚的命运，与包括俄罗斯在内的其他前苏联共和国相比，这个变化是惊人的。