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/ˈfraɪtnd/
Feeling afraid, because you think something bad might happen to you or that you might get hurt. It can say how someone feels inside, or how they look to other people.
害怕的；受驚的
核心畫面
You can picture frightened as what happens on the inside of the person: something bad might be coming, and the body reacts before the thinking does — the breath goes shallow, the eyes go wide, you want to step back. The -ed ending points at the one receiving the feeling, so frightened always describes the person or animal that feels it.
可以想成畫面落在「人的裡面」：好像有什麼不好的事要發生，身體比腦袋先反應——呼吸變淺、眼睛睜大、腳想往後退。-ed …更多收起
可以想成畫面落在「人的裡面」：好像有什麼不好的事要發生，身體比腦袋先反應——呼吸變淺、眼睛睜大、腳想往後退。-ed 這個字尾指向承受感覺的那一方，所以 frightened 講的永遠是感到害怕的那個人或動物，而不是嚇人的東西。原始詞典資料2 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。
frightenedadj/ˈfɹaɪtn̩d/
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Afraid; suffering from fear.
- She looked very much frightened of the storm.
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。