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 terrified ['terifaid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 恐惧的, 受惊吓的

  1. Causing great horror; terrifying.
    让人恐惧的;令人毛骨悚然的
  2. It terrified me to contemplate the consequence of your action.
    想到你行动的后果,我就感到害怕。


terrified
[ adj ]
thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation
<adj.all>
became panicky as the snow deepenedfelt panicked before each exam
trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
the terrified horse bolted


Terrify \Ter"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Terrified}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Terrifying}.] [L. terrere to frighten + -fy: cf. F.
terrifier, L. terrificare. See {Terrific}, and {-fy}.]
1. To make terrible. [Obs.]

If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying
sin, shall give out license, it foils itself.
--Milton.

2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.

When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not terrified.
--Luke xxi. 9.

  1. Zhang Xuexin, a waiter at the Good Taste Restaurant in the Happy Valley district, expressed the feelings of many: "I'm terrified of what will happen when the Communists come.
  2. But some have spent so much time in hospitals, in broken homes or at arm's length from a terrified society that social skills like speaking have not been properly developed.
  3. "Just seeing the convoys terrified me," said a People's University sophomore.
  4. A 4-ton, 15-year-old female elephant used for paid rides at the Southwest Florida Fair at Fort Myers broke loose from a petting zoo, tore through a crowded midway and plunged into a lake while carrying three terrified riders, one of them 4 years old.
  5. It's not my fault somebody else out there looks like me." The other man told The Dallas Morning News he was terrified to learn "I was facing death row." "I thought I was going to die for something I didn't do," he said.
  6. "Jews are terrified over threats to their life and limb," said Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the chairman of the Greater New York Coalition for Soviet Jewry, the rally's sponsor.
  7. Often terrified of telling anyone they are attracted to the same sex, and mercilessly hazed or ostracized if they do, gay teens drop out more and abuse drugs more.
  8. "I didn't even want to take her to the doctor," she said. "I was absolutely terrified, because I knew what would happen." She feared she would be charged with child abuse for the second time.
  9. In the key line, the terrified Bagwell discovers there's no back door.
  10. Most managers interviewed for this story were terrified that their names might be used, fearing they would lose their jobs.
  11. Don Hagan, a physician and AIDS activist attending the session, said several people were terrified they might be arrested and their conditions publicized.
  12. David Rothenberg is terrified, his mother is frantic and prison officials are uneasy.
  13. The tremor terrified people who recalled a 1985 quake that crumbled many buildings in the capital and killed at least 9,500 people.
  14. I was terrified of burning to death." At least four British Army soldiers serving in the troubled Northern Ireland province were killed.
  15. "The bottom line is, in their heart of hearts, the rest of Wall Street is terrified," says John Mullen, a JPMS managing director who had been at Goldman Sachs for nine years.
  16. Relaxed with working-class women to the point of debauchery but terrified of the refined women of his own class, he still epitomises the inhibitions of a certain type of Englishman.
  17. Davies, a complete novice at directing, was terrified on the set and remembered bitterly the crew's disrespectful treatment.
  18. They gave their gardener permission to butcher him, but the 4-foot-tall hog was rescued by animal control officials when his terrified squeals alerted neighbors.
  19. The pawn in all of this is, of course, the infant, andthe film makes that point in one poignant scene as Rick and a sheriff's deputy grapple for the child as the camera captures her terrified expression.
  20. Hundreds of terrified pedestrians ran to escape the fighting and clouds of tear gas.
  21. "I'm a little terrified," he says, "at the prospect of the image makers at the White House having control over a process they can seamlessly put together, like they seamlessly put together press releases."
  22. A handful of students hurled back firebombs, but most protesters and hundreds of terrified commuters ran for cover from the tear gas.
  23. I woke to find huge slabs of plaster on the bed and floor." From the wrecked, smoke-clouded barracks, "I could hear terrified screams of agony.
  24. The children had been terrified, said Richard Schwand, a Red Cross nurse from Corpus Christi. "As soon as one starts screaming, it's kind of contagious.
  25. Among the other phobics were a man who was terrified of bridges and an elderly woman frightened by elevators.
  26. Not a glance at the link between sexual restraint and social cohesion in the mind of a middle-class terrified of godlessness and anarchy. Anecdotes reveal such complex influences on sexual behaviour better than theories and statistics.
  27. But when we moved for the adjournment we knew we were going to lose. 'The fundamental reason is that Names are terrified.
  28. "I was terrified when we first put the angel commercials on the air because we were breaking new ground," says Connie Sartain, a Prudential vice president.
  29. "We were just terrified," said passenger Mona Thomason. "We jumped on the wing, but it looked like we were jumping into a pit of fire."
  30. "I was really terrified," she said. "I became a devil for our conservative society.
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