詞彙精選:scare的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
n.
【單數】驚恐,驚嚇
例句:
You did give me a scare.
你真嚇了我一跳。
例句:
There was a bomb scare during the procession.
在列隊行進時因懷疑有炸彈而引起恐慌。
(社會上的)大恐慌 [C]
例句:
The explosion at the chemical factory caused a major pollution scare.
化工廠發生爆炸引起了害怕污染的巨大恐慌。
v.
使驚恐,嚇唬 [T]
例句:
You scare them to death with your mouth.
你一開口就能把人嚇死。
例句:
It would scare her, he hoped.
他希望這樣能嚇唬嚇唬她。
受驚嚇,感到害怕 [T]
例句:
We'll scare her out of telling the police.
我們要把她嚇得不敢報警。
例句:
The thunder scared the children.
雷聲使孩子們受到驚嚇。
二、詞義辨析:
alarm,frighten,startle,terrify,scare,intimidate
這些動詞均有“驚嚇、驚恐”之意。alarm着重指某人意識到危險而突然產生的驚恐。frighten普通用詞,使用廣泛,指產生突然、短暫的驚慌、恐怖感。startle強調突然使人驚駭或震驚。terrify語氣最強,指驚駭得六神無主,魂飛魄散。scare指非正式文體中可與frighten換用,但語氣較重,側重人受驚嚇後立即停下正在乾的事或跑掉。intimidate特指恐嚇某人,迫使其做某事。
三、相關短語:
scare away
嚇走,嚇跑…
scare off
嚇跑
四、參考例句:
Does that scare you
這是否嚇着你了?
I like reading scare stories.
我喜歡讀恐怖故事。
The things that scare you.
你害怕的事情。
Loud noises can scare animals or birds.
We got a bit of a scare.
我們受了點驚嚇。
It would scare her, he hoped.
他希望這樣能嚇唬嚇唬她。
Harry is trying to scare his sister.
哈利正在準備嚇唬他妹妹。
Maybe you just wanted to scare somebody.
也許你只是想嚇唬嚇唬什麼人吧。
People keep a dog to scare away thieves.
人們養狗來嚇走小偷。
The sound of the explosion gave me quite a scare.
爆炸聲把我嚇了一跳。