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

• It would terrify me to think I knew nothing other than my major and my job.
  他说，一想到自己除了本专业和工作上的事，其他一无所知，我就觉得很可怕。
• Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
  因惧怕大众，又因宗族藐视我使我惊恐，以致闭口无言，杜门不出。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?
  他的尊荣岂不叫你们惧怕吗？他的惊吓岂不临到你们吗？
• Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
  但愿他的棍杖远离我，他的威严不要恐吓我。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。