scare

1. V-T If something scares you, it frightens or worries you. 驚嚇

You're scaring me. 你嚇著我了。

The prospect of failure scares me rigid. 失敗的可能嚇得我都僵了。

2. PHRASE If you want to emphasize that something scares you a lot, you can say that it scares the hell out of you or scares the life out of you. 嚇?biāo)懒?span>[非正式]

3. N-SING If a sudden unpleasant experience gives you a scare, it frightens you. 驚嚇

Don't you realize what a scare you've given us all?

你難道沒(méi)意識(shí)到你給了我們大家一個(gè)什么樣的驚嚇嗎？

4. N-COUNT A scare is a situation in which many people are afraid or worried because they think something dangerous is happening which will affect them all. 恐慌; 恐懼

The news set off a continent-wide health scare. 這一消息引起了整個(gè)大陸的健康恐慌。

5. N-COUNT A bomb scare or a security scare is a situation in which there is believed to be a bomb in a place. (炸彈或安全) 恐慌

Despite many recent bomb scares, no one has yet been hurt. 盡管最近發(fā)生多次炸彈恐慌，但至今為止還沒(méi)有人員受傷。

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