英语单词 | terror |
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英美音标 | ['terə(r)] |
中文释义 | n.恐怖,可怕的人,恐怖时期,恐怖行动 |
vocabulary简明 | Terror is the feeling of extreme fear. If you unexpectedly find someone dressed up as a vampire in your closet in the middle of a dark night, you might well experience feelings of terror. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you feel terror, you are frozen to the spot in fear. This is the goal of terrorists who use terror as a weapon — they create a climate of fear and mistrust so that people are afraid to go about their normal lives. You will recognize this use in the phrase “the war on terror.” You can also call a difficult or scary person, often a child who causes havoc, a terror or a holy terror. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]恐惧;惊恐;恐慌 Terror is very great fear.
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指有政治目的的)恐怖活动,恐怖主义 Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons. [oft N n]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]恐怖的事物 A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]讨厌的小孩;淘气鬼;小捣蛋 If someone describes a child as a terror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control. [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式]
5 [PHRASE 短语]完全吓不倒;让人丝毫不焦虑 If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it. [V inflects]
6 to live in terror→see: live ; reign of terror→see: reign ; |
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