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/ˈterəfaɪ/ · /ˈterɪfaɪ/
to make someone feel extremely afraid, much more than a little scared. The thing that causes the fear is usually the subject of the sentence, and the person is the object.
嚇壞
過去式 terrified過去分詞 terrified-ing terrifying三單 terrifies
核心畫面
One way to picture it: fear so strong that it takes over the whole body — you freeze, you cannot think, you want to run. Not the small jump of being , but the kind of fear that fills you up. And the word points at what causes it: the storm, the dog, the height is doing something to the person.
一種把整個人吞掉的害怕：不是被嚇一跳的那種小小驚跳，而是心臟狂跳、腦袋空白、腿軟到動不了的程度。這個字還帶著一個方向…更多收起
一種把整個人吞掉的害怕：不是被嚇一跳的那種小小驚跳，而是心臟狂跳、腦袋空白、腿軟到動不了的程度。這個字還帶著一個方向——製造恐懼的那一方（暴風雨、那條狗、那個高度）站在句子前面，被嚇的人在後面承受：The storm terrified the children。害怕是被「做」到人身上的。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。
terrifyverb/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/
- 1
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
- 2
To menace or intimidate.
- Your men are valiant but their number few, And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]
- 3
obsoleteTo make terrible.
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。