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

• Remove Your hand from me, And let not the dread of You terrify me.
  伯13：21就是把你的手缩回、远离我身.又不使你的惊惶威吓我。
• When they were first designed, it is also likely that all uniforms made symbolic sense-those for the military, for example, were originally intended to impress and even terrify the enemy;
  当初所有制服被设计出来，有可能是想得到像给敌人以震撼，和甚至恐吓的军服的效果；
• 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。
• Fortunately for him, being a pop sensation gives you all the resources you need to stalk, threaten, and terrify a group of teen girls.
  不过对他来说幸运的是，作为一个流行歌手，比伯拥有一切所需要的资源来跟踪、威胁和恐吓那些姑娘们。
• 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。
• Bad Moon warriors wear strikingly patterned clothing and shocking war paint designed to terrify the enemy.
  恶月的战士们喜欢用夸张的装束和吓人的战漆来恐吓敌人。
• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
  一切国家的教会机关，不论是犹太教的，基督教的或是土耳其教会的，在我看来，无非是人所创造出来的，建立的目的是在于恐吓和奴役人类，并且借此来垄断权力和利益。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？