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If you feel intimidated, you feel small, worried, and short of confidence because of the place you are in or the people around you. Maybe the room is full of older students, or a teacher seems very sure, or a job interview feels too big.
If you feel intimidated如果你感到intimidated you feel small, worried, and short of confidence你會覺得自己很渺小、很擔心,而且沒什麼自信 because of the place you are in or the people around you因為你所在的場合,或周圍的人 Maybe the room is full of older students也許整間教室都是年紀比較大的學生 or a teacher seems very sure或是老師看起來非常有把握 or a job interview feels too big或是一場工作面試感覺太超出你的能力
It is about a feeling inside you, not about being hit or hurt. People use it in everyday talk; it is not slang and not especially formal.
It is about a feeling inside you這說的是你內心的感受 not about being hit or hurt不是被打或受傷 People use it in everyday talk人們在日常對話裡會用這個字 it is not slang它不是俚語 and not especially formal也不算特別正式
Though actually, speakers often stretch it: they say “I felt a bit intimidated” when they only mean shy or out of place, not truly scared.
Though actually不過其實 speakers often stretch it使用者常常會把這個字用得比較寬鬆 they say "I felt a bit intimidated"他們會說「I felt a bit intimidated」 when they only mean shy or out of place但其實只是想說害羞或格格不入 not truly scared而不是真的害怕
The feeling can come from a person or from a situation. The -ed ending tells you this is how someone feels.
The feeling can come from a person這種感覺可能來自一個人 or from a situation或是來自一個情境 The -ed ending-ed這個字尾 tells you this is how someone feels告訴你這是某人的感受
組成intimidate + -ed (how you feel). The verb intimidate is built on the same old piece as timid (easily frightened): made afraid.
同家族的字
- timidshares the old piece meaning easily frightened
- intimidatethe verb this feeling comes from
- intimidatingthe describing word for the thing that makes you feel this way
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。
intimidatedadj/ɪnˈtɪm.ɪ.deɪ.tɪd/
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Subjected to intimidation.
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。