hacking

hacking — 形容詞

1. describes a cough that is dry, harsh, repeated, and sounds painful — as if the p

1.形容詞B2
釋義

劇咳的

形容大聲而痛苦的乾咳

describes a cough that is dry, harsh, repeated, and sounds painful — as if the person is being torn apart from the inside.

例句

A loud hacking cough from the next room kept Élise awake all night.

隔壁房間傳來一陣大聲的劇咳，讓 Élise 整夜無法入睡。

attributive use: hacking + cough only

After two weeks of cold, Femi's grandmother developed a painful hacking cough.

Femi 的祖母感冒兩週後，開始出現痛苦的劇咳。

同義詞
  • dry

    less intense; dry cough lacks the harsh, tearing quality of a hacking cough

  • rasping

    focuses on the rough, scraping sound rather than the painfulness

文法句型

hacking + cough (only noun it modifies)

用法筆記

This sense of 'hacking' is only used before the noun 'cough.' It never appears in other positions — not 'The cough is hacking' — and never modifies other nouns.

常見錯誤

❌He has a hacking all winter.
✅He had a hacking cough all winter.
💡'hacking' cannot stand alone as a noun for a cough; it must always be followed by 'cough.'

hacking — 名詞