- 1aB1
/ˈterəfaɪd/ · /ˈterɪfaɪd/
Very — so afraid of something that you may not be able to move, speak, or think clearly.
嚇壞的;非常害怕的
核心畫面
You can picture terrified as fear that has already reached you and taken over your body: not the light worry that keeps you thinking, but the kind that freezes you where you stand — your legs will not move, your voice will not come out, and for a moment your mind cannot form a plan. Words like afraid or scared describe the feeling; terrified describes the feeling at full strength, big enough to take control.
可以想成:害怕已經整個壓上來、把你按住的那一刻。不是還能一邊擔心一邊做事的那種怕,而是腿動不了、聲音卡在喉嚨、腦袋一…更多收起
可以想成:害怕已經整個壓上來、把你按住的那一刻。不是還能一邊擔心一邊做事的那種怕,而是腿動不了、聲音卡在喉嚨、腦袋一時想不出任何辦法。afraid、scared 說的是「怕」這件事,terrified 說的是這份怕已經放大到接管了你——所以它常出現在真正嚇人的場面裡,也常被人拿來誇張地講一件讓自己受不了的事。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。
terrifiedadj/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪd/
- 1
Extremely frightened.
- Remi is terrified of spiders.
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。