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    If something fazes you, it knocks you off balance inside. A new or difficult situation makes you confused, shocked, or unsure what to do next.

    If something fazes you如果某件事faze你 it knocks you off balance inside表示它讓你內心失去平衡 A new or difficult situation一個新的或困難的處境 makes you confused, shocked, or unsure what to do next會讓你感到困惑、震驚,或不知道接下來該怎麼辦

    English uses it most often in the negative, which is worth noticing: “Nothing fazes her” means she stays calm when things go wrong. “He didn’t look fazed” means his face did not show the shock.

    English uses it most often in the negative英文最常用否定形式來說這個詞 which is worth noticing這點值得注意 “Nothing fazes her”「Nothing fazes her」 means she stays calm when things go wrong意思是不管出什麼狀況她都很冷靜 “He didn’t look fazed”「He didn't look fazed」 means his face did not show the shock意思是他臉上沒有表現出震驚

    The word is informal to neutral, very common in American English, and a little less at home in careful British writing — though people will still understand it.

    The word is informal to neutral這個詞屬於非正式到中性之間 very common in American English在美式英文裡非常常見 and a little less at home in careful British writing在講究的英式書面語裡比較少見一點 though people will still understand it不過大家還是聽得懂

    It is almost always about a person’s reaction. You faze a person, not a plan or a machine.

    It is almost always about它幾乎都是在講 a person’s reaction一個人的反應 You faze你會faze a person一個人 not a plan or a machine而不是一個計畫或一台機器

    Though actually, native speakers it constantly, because faze and phase sound the same.

    Though actually不過其實 native speakers misspell it constantly母語人士常常拼錯這個字 because因為 faze and phase sound the same faze和phase聽起來一樣

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From an old dialect word feeze/feese, “to frighten,” going back to Old English fēsan/fȳsan, “to drive away” or “send forth.” Not related to phase.

同家族的字

  • unfazedunfazed means not fazed — still calm when something hard happens

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fazeverb/feɪz/

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    informalTo frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.

    • Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
    • But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。