scare

英 [skeə(r)] 美 [sker]

• v. 受惊吓；恐吓；吓走
• n. 惊吓；惊恐

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 恐吓

   frighten; become frightened

n. (名词)

1. [S] 惊恐,惊吓

   a sudden feeling of fear

2. [C] (社会上的)大恐慌

   a usually mistaken or unreasonable public fear

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 吓，惊吓，恐吓，（把...）吓跑，吓唬，吓走，把...吓出来，吓得某人屁滚尿流
2. 受惊，受惊吓
3. 吃惊，惊慌
4. 惶恐，担惊受怕，惴惴不安，害怕（起来），恐惧
5. 使害怕，使恐惧，使惊恐，使恐慌

n. 名词

1. 惊吓，惊恐，恐慌，吓唬，恐怖，惊慌，恐惧，人心惶惶
2. 大吃一惊
3. 恐惧病
4. 棒颈

英英释义

Noun:

1. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events;

   "panic in the stock market"
   "a war scare"
   "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
   

2. a sudden attack of fear

Verb:

1. cause fear in;

   "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
   "Ghosts could never affright her"
   

2. cause to lose courage;

   "dashed by the refusal"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. You scare them to death with your mouth.
   你一开口就能把人吓死。
2. We'll scare her out of telling the police.
   我们要把她吓得不敢报警。
3. His threats scared them out of carrying out the plan.
   他的威胁迫使他们不敢实行该计划。
4. The dog scared the thief away.
   狗把小偷吓走了。

用作名词 (n.)

1. You did give me a scare.
   你真吓了我一跳。
2. There was a bomb scare during the procession.
   在列队行进时因怀疑有炸弹而引起恐慌。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The children scared.
   孩子们受惊了。
2. He is a man who scares easily.
   他是个胆小的人。
3. The horse scares easily.
   这匹马容易受惊。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Don't scare the children.
   不要吓着孩子们。
2. You'll scare the baby if you shout.
   你若大声叫喊会把婴儿吓坏的。
3. Don't let the noise scare you; it's only the winds.
   不要让那声音把你唬住,那只不过是风罢了。
4. His idea scared me.
   他的想法使我吃惊。
5. Difficulties only scare cowards and lazy people.
   困难只会吓住懦夫和懒汉。
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6. She was terribly scared.
   她受了极大的惊吓。
7. The children were scared when a monkey appears.
   当一个猴子出现时,这些小孩吓坏了。
8. She was scared by the thunder.
   她被雷声吓坏了。
9. The birds were scared by the sudden barking of a dog.
   鸟被突然的狗叫声吓跑了。

用作宾补动词

S+～+ n./pron. + adj.

1. A wild cry outside scared him stiff.
   外面的一声尖叫使他非常紧张。
2. The thought of my exams next week scares me stiff.
   一想起下星期的考试我就吓得发呆。
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3. The child was scared stiff in the dentist's chair.
   小孩在牙科医生的椅子上给吓呆了。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The sound of the explosion gave me quite a scare.
   爆炸声把我吓了一大跳。
2. There's been quite a scare about the possible side effects of this new drug.
   这种新药可能产生的副作用造成了相当大的恐慌。
3. A recent series of bomb scares have caused serious damage to the public facilities.
   近来接连出现的炸弹恐吓事件严重损害了公共设施。

经典引文

• An invasion scare took a firm hold of the..authorities.

  出自： W. S. Churchill

• After one scare from intruders she had slept with a revolver..on the bedside table.

  出自： G. Boddy

• Food scares began erupting with frightening regularity, exposed..by a new army of health specialists.

  出自：Independent on Sunday

• The curtained..four-poster beds had..scared them.

  出自： A. F. Douglas

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

scare away〔off〕 (v.+adv.)

吓跑 discourage (sb) by fear; make (sb or an animal) leave through fear
scare sb/sth ⇔ away〔off〕
The dispute there has scared away potential investors.

那里的争端把原来想投资的人吓跑了。
The high price is scaring away possible buyers.

价格昂贵,把想买东西的顾客吓跑了。
The scarecrows are for scaring away the birds.

稻草人是用来吓唬鸟的。
He flung a stone at the sparrows, he missed, scaring all the sparrows away.

他投石子打麻雀,没有击中,把麻雀都吓飞了。
He got a gun and scared off the thief.

他拿了一支枪把小偷吓跑了。
We keep a cat to scare the mice off.

我们养了一只猫,用它来吓跑老鼠。
I have got a way to scare those naughty children off.

我想出了一个吓跑那些顽童的办法。
The birds were scared away by the cat.

那些鸟被猫吓跑了。

scare into (v.+prep.)

吓得去… persuade (sb) through fear into (doing sth)
scare sb into v-ing
The salesman scared the old lady into signing the paper by threatening to take away the goods.

推销员威胁要拿走货物,吓得那老妇人在单据上签了字。

scare out (v.+adv.)

用恐吓的方法逼出〔赶出〕 make sb/sth out with sth scare
scare sb/sth ⇔ out
The huntsman sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge.

猎人派一名赶猎助手上前把鹧鸪从隐蔽处赶出来。

scare out of mind (v.+adv.+prep.+n.)

吓得魂不附体 make sb greatly afraid, especially through shock
scare sb out of one's mind
You scared me out of my mind, coming up behind me suddenly like that.

你这冷不防从背后过来,真把我吓死了。
He was scared out of his mind, giving his first public performance.

他第一次公开演出时就吓得要死。

scare up (v.+adv.)

张罗,凑合 find and produce a supply of (sth, things, or people)
scare sth ⇔ up
I'll see if I can scare up a meal from the scraps of food in the kitchen.

我去看看能否把厨房里的残羹剩饭凑成一顿饭菜。
She manages to scare up a lunch for the unexpected guests.

她设法为那些未料到的客人张罗一顿午饭。
The boy scared up enough money to go to college.

这孩子筹措了足够上大学的钱。
Can you scare up another car?

你能再找一辆车吗?

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• scare baby 吓坏了婴儿
• scare bird 吓鸟
• scare child 吓着了孩子
• scare dog 吓狗
• scare mice 吓老鼠

～+副词

• scare baselessly 无缘无故地恐吓
• scare dreadfully 令人担忧地恐吓
• scare easily 容易受惊
• scare away〔off〕 吓跑
• scare out 将(某人〔物〕)吓出来
• scare up 张罗

～+介词

• scare at 因…而害怕
• scare out of 吓得魂不附体
• scare to 吓得将要…

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• cause a scare 引起恐慌
• get a scare 吓一跳
• give sb a scare 把某人吓一跳
• put〔throw〕 a scare into sb 〈美〉使某人吓一跳

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. scare的基本意思是“恐吓”,指(用)可怕的动作、形象或声音等使人处于惊恐的状态或从内心感到恐惧。可用于短暂的心理反应,也可用于充满恐惧的心理状态,在较正式的用法中,指迫使人战栗甚至逃遁时的恐惧。
2. scare可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词或代词作宾语,有时也可接以形容词充当补足语的复合宾语。可用于被动结构。用作不及物动词时,主动形式常具有被动意义。

词义辨析

alarm，frighten，startle，terrify，scare，intimidate

• 这些动词均有“惊吓、惊恐”之意。
• alarm着重指某人意识到危险而突然产生的惊恐。
• frighten普通用词，使用广泛，指产生突然、短暂的惊慌、恐怖感。
• startle强调突然使人惊骇或震惊。
• terrify语气最强，指惊骇得六神无主，魂飞魄散。
• scare指非正式文体中可与frighten换用，但语气较重，侧重人受惊吓后立即停下正在干的事或跑掉。
• intimidate特指恐吓某人，迫使其做某事。

occasional，uncommon，scare，rare

• 这些形容词均含“稀罕的、很少发生”之意。
• occasional指偶然、不时或间或发生的事，侧重无规律可循。
• uncommon指一般不发生或很少发生的事情，故显得独特、异常与例外。
• scare指暂时不易发现、不存在或数量不足，供不应求的东西。
• rare指难得发生的事或难遇见的人或事，侧重特殊性。

词源解说

• ☆ 1200年进入英语，直接源自古北欧语的skirra，意为惊吓。

近反义词

【近义词】

• frighten
• shock
• threaten
• shock