| 单词 | frighten |
| 释义 | fright·en transitive verb 1. < the mask frightened the child > 2. a. < frightened the boy into confessing his crime > < frightened the prowler away > b. < frighten the secret out of the man > 3. dialect England < I shouldn't be frightened if it rained today > intransitive verb 1. < a costume designed to frighten > 2. < not a man who frightens easily > Synonyms: < children frightened by thunder > < the silence of the house for a long time frightened Clara — Sherwood Anderson > < when I started down that precipice I was frightened, literally scared numb and stiff — W.A.White > fright is an older and now almost solely literary or dialect form of frighten < you have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed as to compose the mind without frighting it — Thomas Gray > Often equivalent to frighten in conversational use, scare usually implies a quick fear that causes one to run, shy, or tremble < the near approach of death scared him into sincerity — T.B.Macaulay > < sensational books commonly try to scare the reader — C.E.Kellogg > alarm, in modern use, stresses apprehension or anxiety < they had been alarmed during the night by loud noises that must have been demolitions of some kind — Eric Linklater > < my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting, came running downstairs to help me — R.L.Stevenson > terrify puts stress upon acute fear and agitation, usually suggesting a state of mind in which self-control or self-direction are impossible < something in his face and in his voice terrified her heart — Robert Hichins > < these things terrified the people to the last degree — Daniel Defoe > terrorize, as distinct from terrify, often implies an intentional affecting with terror < a band of cutthroats and thieves that terrorized the lower Mississippi valley — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < he delighted in terrorizing the guests by his bullying and swaggering ways — E.V.Buckholder > startle always implies surprise or a sudden usually light shock that causes one to jump or shrink < an infant is startled by a loud noise — Morris Fishbein > < suddenly she was startled into an upright position, with her eyes staring and her mouth wide open — Liam O'Flaherty > affray and affright are now archaic and found usually in poetic works; affray is very close to terrify, affright close to frighten < blastings and blightings of hope and love, and rude shocks that affray — Robert Bridges †1930 > < I was affrighted by that impossible novel — W.B.Yeats > < a picture of Purgatory which made the hair of those who gazed on it stand on end in terror, and so affrighted the butchers and the fishmongers that they abandoned their trade of taking life — Laurence Binyon > |
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