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Terror Fear Difficult Child N Uncount 不可数名词 I N Count

英语单词 terror
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.
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]恐惧;惊恐;恐慌 Terror is very great fear.
  • I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...

    每次坐飞机前,我都吓得直发抖。

  • The day of terror ended after police used teargas and stormed the house.

    警察使用了催泪瓦斯攻入屋子以后,恐惧的一天结束了。

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[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]
  • The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.

    对首都的炸弹袭击可能标志着选举前的恐怖活动开始了。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]恐怖的事物 A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
  • As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.

    小时候,他特别害怕见人。

  • ...the terrors of violence.

    恐怖的暴力行为

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[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]
  • He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.

    他是个淘气鬼,从小就不老实。

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[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]
  • Childbirth now held fewer terrors for her than it once had.

    她现在不像原来那样害怕分娩了。

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to live in terror→see:
live
; reign of terror→see:
reign

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