世界上有很多東西會讓我們感到害怕。我們來看看英文怎么表達這個意思。
1. frighten:
例：
Does the thought of death frighten you?（想到死亡，你怕嗎？）
Take that silly mask off - you're
frightening the children.（把那個奇怪的面具摘下來，你嚇到孩子們了。）
it frightens somebody to know/think etc.
It frightens me to know that the rapist
still hasn't been caught.（聽說那個強奸犯還沒落網(wǎng)，我很害怕。）
frighten somebody into doing something (=make someone do something by frightening them) Their lawyers
tried to frighten us into signing the contract.（他們的律師想脅迫我們簽合同。）
They frightened the boy into confessing his
crime.（他們恐嚇那孩子，逼他認罪。）
The insurance agent tried to frighten her
into buying the most expensive flood insurance.（保險推銷員想嚇唬她，好讓她買下最貴的洪水意外險。）
frighten somebody off/frighten off
somebody (=frighten someone so that they go away or
stop trying to do something)
The man pulled out a gun and managed to
frighten off his attackers.（那人拔出槍，成功嚇走了圍攻他的人。）
Bad economic news has frightened people
out of putting their money in the stock market.（經(jīng)濟不景氣，嚇得人們不敢炒股了。）
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使人非常害怕：to
make someone feel very frightened
frighten somebody to death
The story nearly frightened me to death.（這個故事快把我嚇死了。）
frighten the life out of somebody
Why do you creep up on me like that? You
frightened the life out of me!（你干嘛那樣從背后嚇我？！我嚇得我心臟都快停了?。?/span>
frighten somebody out of their wits
I was frightened out of my wits at the very
idea.（這個想法讓我感到太害怕了。）
frighten the (living) daylights out of
somebody
Kate spun round to see Tom standing behind
her. "You frightened the daylights out of me!" she gasped. "I
never heard you come in."（凱特一回頭，看見湯姆就站在她身后。凱特倒吸一口涼氣，說：“你嚇死我了！我沒聽見你進來的聲音?！保?/span>
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2. scare: to make someone feel
frightened, especially by making them think something very unpleasant might
happen
備注："scare"常用于口語中。
例：
He was driving fast just to scare us.（他開車開那么快，純粹是要嚇唬坐在車上的我們。）
We're not really going to get arrested - I
think the police are trying to scare us.（警察并非真的要抓我們，我覺得他們就是嚇唬嚇唬。）
it scares somebody to know/think etc.
It scared him to think that his mother
might never recover.（想到媽媽可能永遠都好不了了，他很害怕。）
scare away/off
Tourists have been scared off by the recent
violence in the city.（最近這個城市暴力事件頻發(fā)，游客都不敢來了。）
She finally found a man who is not scared
away by the fact that she is a single mother raising two children.（她最終找到一個好男人不嫌棄她是個單身媽媽還帶著兩個孩子。）
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使人非常害怕：to
make someone feel very frightened
scare somebody to death
You nearly scared me to death.（你快把我嚇死了。）
scare the hell out of somebody（備注：''scare the hell out of
somebody''較口語化）
She scared the hell out of me when she said
she had to go into hospital.（她說她得上醫(yī)院，真嚇死我了。）
scare the (living) daylights out of
somebody
Don't creep up on me like that! You scared the living daylights out of me!（別那樣從后面嚇我！我快被你嚇死了！）
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