| 单词 | scare |
| 释义 | Word family noun scare adjective scared scary verb scare scare1 /skeə $ sker/ ●●● S2 verb 1 [transitive]FRIGHTENED to make someone feel frightened 使〔某人〕惊恐，吓唬 SYN frighten, → afraid Loud noises can scare animals or birds. 噪声太大会惊吓到鸟兽。scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of somebody (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得魂不附体 The alarm scared the hell out of me. 警报声把我的魂都吓没了。scare the pants off somebody informal (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得屁滚尿流2 scare easily FRIGHTENEDto be frightened by things that are not very frightening 容易受惊吓，动不动就感到害怕 I don’t scare easily, you know. 你知道我不是那么容易给吓倒的！3 scare somebody into something phrasal verb FRIGHTENEDto make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them 恐吓，威胁scare somebody into doing something You can’t scare me into telling you anything. 你吓唬我也没用，我不会告诉你的。4 scare somebody/something ↔ off/away phrasal verb a) FRIGHTENEDto make an animal or person go away by frightening them 把…吓跑 She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away. 她动作很轻，不想把鸟儿吓走。b) PREVENTto make someone uncertain or worried so that they do not do something they were going to do 吓跑〔想做某事的人〕 Rising prices are scaring off many potential customers. 涨价把很多潜在顾客都吓跑了。5 scare something ↔ up phrasal verb American English informal MAKEto make something although you have very few things to make it from 〔在东西不够用时〕凑合做成 Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat. 我来看看能不能给你凑合着弄点吃的。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusscare• Tracks can hardly afford to scare away the best horses now that rich races are plentiful and horse transportation is routine.• Dad stormed out and I was so scared he was blaming me that I started crying.• He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.• It scared him to think that his mother might never recover.• All the stuff he said about spiders kind of scared me.• They were sexually inexperienced at marriage, and scared of babies.• The procedure is an effective means of scaring off applicants.• Today, he scares the hell out of a lot of Republicans.• She scared the hell out of me when she said she had to go into hospital.• Don't creep up on me like that! You scared the living daylights out of me!• He was scared to death, and his head was almost shaved like new recruits in armies the world over.• He was driving fast just to scare us.• We're not really going to get arrested - I think the police are trying to scare us.scare the pants off somebody• Lovely people who scared the pants off him.• The tests scare the pants off many managers.• It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.• Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.scare2 ●○○ noun 1 [singular]FRIGHTENED a sudden feeling of fear 惊恐，惊吓 You really gave us a scare! 你真的吓了我们一跳！2 [countable]FRIGHTENED a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something 〔社会上的〕大恐慌 a bomb scare 炸弹恐慌 a health scare 健康恐慌Examples from the Corpusscare• Aids has caused such a scare that fewer and fewer people are giving blood.• The game was delayed due to a bomb scare.• Retail sales were down due to a spate of bomb scares before Christmas.• Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.• a health scare• Some people, nervous about the health scare over cellular phones, have started using hands-free apparatus.• And behind bars ... puppy is seized in rabies scare.• The media buy into the scam because such scare stories about unseen threats make good headlines.• A year after Chernobyl the scare about radioactive food had died down.• If she wishes to attach herself to the scare, I am delighted.• The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.• That said, I think most virus scares are overblown.bomb scare• The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare.• Apparently there had been a bomb scare recently.• Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare ...• Following the find, the centre was evacuated again because of a bomb scare which police believe was a hoax.• She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare.• No, not the usual boring bomb scare, but a cultural occasion of enormous significance.Origin scare1 (1100-1200) Old Norse skirra, from skjarr “shy, fearful”scare1 verbscare2 nounChinese make feel someone frightened Corpus to |
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