hauntingly
/ˈhɔːntɪŋli/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈhɔːntɪŋli/ (ame, ipa)
hauntingly — 副詞
1. with such beauty, sadness, or strangeness that the feeling stays in your mind lo
扣人心弦地
美得讓人久久難忘的方式
with such beauty, sadness, or strangeness that the feeling stays in your mind long afterwards and you cannot stop thinking about it.
Iris sang the old folk song hauntingly, and the audience sat in complete silence.
Iris 扣人心弦地唱著那首古老的民謠，全場觀眾都靜靜地坐著。
hauntingly + verb describing a performance
The painting of the empty village was hauntingly beautiful, like a dream Karim still remembers.
那幅空曠村莊的畫扣人心弦地美，像是 Karim 至今仍記得的一場夢。
hauntingly + adjective (beautiful)
Olivia's first novel ends on a hauntingly sad note that stayed with me for days.
Olivia 的第一本小說以一個扣人心弦的悲傷結尾收場，讓我好幾天都還在回味。
The film's final scene was hauntingly quiet, broken only by wind on the lake.
電影的最後一幕扣人心弦地安靜，只剩湖面上的風聲打破寂靜。
Hiro's photographs of the abandoned hospital are hauntingly real and difficult to look away from.
Hiro 拍攝廢棄醫院的照片扣人心弦地真實，讓人難以移開目光。
- evocatively
also stirs deep feeling but without the sad or unsettling edge
- eerily
shares the strange, lingering feeling but leans more toward fear than beauty
- memorably
neutral and broader; lacks the emotional weight of 'hauntingly'
- forgettably
describes something that leaves no lasting impression — the opposite effect
文法句型
hauntingly + adjective
hauntingly + verb
用法筆記
Almost always pairs with a small set of adjectives carrying emotional weight (beautiful, familiar, sad, quiet, real, vivid) or with verbs of artistic performance (sing, play, write). Rarely used for everyday descriptions.