Ίσως δεν θα ήταν το eye-watering η πρώτη σας επιλογή όταν μιλάμε για πράγματα και καταστάσεις κ.λπ. που σε κάνουν να θέλεις να κλάψεις, that make you want to cry, that bring tears to your eyes, όπως στο παράδειγμα της Guardian στο άρθρο για τα λεφτά που φεύγουν για την ασφάλεια των Ολυμπιακών του Λονδίνου (από παραπομπή του Θέμη):
With the required numbers of security staff more than doubling in the last year, estimates of the Games' immediate security costs have doubled from £282m to £553m. Even these figures are likely to end up as dramatic underestimates: the final security budget of the 2004 Athens Olympics were around £1bn. [...]
In Athens, the $300m "super-panopticon" CCTV and information system built for the Games following intense US pressure remained after the event, along with the disused sports facilities. In fact, the system has been used by Greek police trying in vain to control the mass uprisings responding to the crash and savage austerity measures in the country. [...]
In the context of post-austerity Britain, these figures are eye-watering.
Στα αγγλικά λεξικά, μόνο το ODE φιλοξενεί τη λέξη:
eye-watering adjective
1 causing the eyes to water: eye-watering Scotch bonnet chillies (Σνίκελ: κόκκινες πιπεριές)
2 (especially of a figure or amount) extremely high or large: an eye-watering 22% rise in business rates | eye-watering pre-tax losses of £38.5 million
— eye-wateringly adverb
[as submodifier]: his eye-wateringly expensive divorce settlement
Προς το παρόν:
που σε κάνει να θέλεις να κλάψεις
που σου φέρνει δάκρυα στα μάτια
εξωφρενικός (και συνώνυμα: ανήκουστος, υπέρμετρος, υπέρογκος)
(Όλο το άρθρο με έκανε να θέλω να κλάψω...)
With the required numbers of security staff more than doubling in the last year, estimates of the Games' immediate security costs have doubled from £282m to £553m. Even these figures are likely to end up as dramatic underestimates: the final security budget of the 2004 Athens Olympics were around £1bn. [...]
In Athens, the $300m "super-panopticon" CCTV and information system built for the Games following intense US pressure remained after the event, along with the disused sports facilities. In fact, the system has been used by Greek police trying in vain to control the mass uprisings responding to the crash and savage austerity measures in the country. [...]
In the context of post-austerity Britain, these figures are eye-watering.
Στα αγγλικά λεξικά, μόνο το ODE φιλοξενεί τη λέξη:
eye-watering adjective
1 causing the eyes to water: eye-watering Scotch bonnet chillies (Σνίκελ: κόκκινες πιπεριές)
2 (especially of a figure or amount) extremely high or large: an eye-watering 22% rise in business rates | eye-watering pre-tax losses of £38.5 million
— eye-wateringly adverb
[as submodifier]: his eye-wateringly expensive divorce settlement
Προς το παρόν:
που σε κάνει να θέλεις να κλάψεις
που σου φέρνει δάκρυα στα μάτια
εξωφρενικός (και συνώνυμα: ανήκουστος, υπέρμετρος, υπέρογκος)
(Όλο το άρθρο με έκανε να θέλω να κλάψω...)
