- 1aB1
/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/
Making you feel afraid or nervous — used about a thing, a place, an experience, or an idea that gives you that feeling, not about the person who feels it.
令人害怕的；嚇人的
核心畫面
You can picture frightening as pointing at the source, not the : the dark road, the loud noise, the number on the medical report — the thing that sends the fear out. The -ing ending marks the side that produces the effect, so a frightening film is the film that makes people afraid, never the film that feels afraid.
可以想成這個字的箭頭指向「來源」而不是「感受的人」：那條沒有燈的路、那個突然的巨響、報告上那個數字——是它把害怕送出…更多收起
可以想成這個字的箭頭指向「來源」而不是「感受的人」：那條沒有燈的路、那個突然的巨響、報告上那個數字——是它把害怕送出去的。-ing 字尾標記的是製造效果的那一邊，所以 a frightening film 是讓人害怕的片子，不會是「感到害怕的片子」。原始詞典資料3 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。
frighteningadj/ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/
- 1
Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.
- Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
- The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business.
- 2
Awful, terrible, very bad.
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。