terrify

英 [ˈterɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈterɪfaɪ]

v.  使恐惧; 使十分害怕; 使惊吓

过去分词：terrified　现在分词：terrifying　过去式：terrified　第三人称单数：terrifies　

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Collins.2 / BNC.8606 / COCA.5828

牛津词典

verb

• 使恐惧；使十分害怕；使惊吓
  to make sb feel extremely frightened
  1. Flying terrifies her.
     她害怕坐飞机。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 吓坏;使极度恐慌;使非常害怕
  If somethingterrifiesyou, it makes you feel extremely frightened.
  1. Flying terrifies him...
     坐飞机让他害怕得要命。
  2. The thought of dying slowly and painfully terrified me.
     缓慢而痛苦地死去的想法使我恐惧不已。

Take care not to confuseterrifiedandterrifying.
注意不要混淆 terrified 和 terrifying。

英英释义

verb

• fill with terror
  Synonym:terrorizeterrorise

双语例句

• Once it has assumed this monstrous guise, it will terrify its brothers and drive them away to Normandy.
  一旦有了这个凶暴的伪装，它就会恐吓它的兄弟，把它们赶出诺曼底。
• Driving at high speeds in the median of a highway will terrify drivers in both lanes.
  在公路中间高速行驶会使双方向行驶的司机都受到惊吓。
• Whom would it profit to terrify or to kill James Sinclair?
  恐吓或者干掉詹姆斯·辛克莱对谁会有好处？
• It wasn't until years later that DOOM's power to terrify was seriously examined; at the time it was all about – wait for it – the game's amazing technology.
  以后不直到年命运恐吓的电源严重被检验；在时间，它都关于–它–赛的令人惊讶的技术。
• Alec d'Urberville had evidently thought better of his freak to terrify her by an ambush of that kind.
  显然阿历克德贝维尔已经完全想到了他的怪诞行为，如果他用那种埋伏的把戏，肯定要把苔丝吓坏的。
• The valley of Elah is where the Philistines sent out their Goliath to terrify the Israelites, and where young David felled the giant with his trusty slingshot.
  以拉谷地是古腓力斯国派出他们的英雄歌力亚恐吓以色列人的地方，在这里，年轻的大卫王用自己可靠的弹弓击倒了巨人歌力亚。
• Machiavelli understood well that the prince and his secretary had different roles and that each needed the other. He wrote that government requires a fox to see the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.
  马基雅维利（Machiavelli）深知，君主和大臣是两个不同的角色，两者都需要对方。他曾写道，君主须具备双重性格，既是狐狸以看破陷阱，也必须是雄狮以慑服群狼。
• Recent additions to the battlefield include tiny "insects" that perform reconnaissance missions and giant "dogs" to terrify foes.
  最近增加到战场的包括执行侦察任务的小“昆虫”和吓唬敌人的大“狗”。
• We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee.
  我们就做出可怕的声音好把他们吓得更厉害，然后我们就从窗台边上下来，因为有人在拉开门闩，我们觉得还是溜掉好些。
• The scum terrify honest citizens in freedom's name.
  那些人渣以自由的名义恐吓诚实的市民。