中文词源
terrify 使恐惧，使惊吓
来自 terror,恐惧，惊恐，-fy,使。
英语词源
- terrify (v.)
- 1570s, from Latin terrificare "to frighten, make afraid," from terrificus "causing terror" (see terrific). Related: Terrified; terrifying.
权威例句
- 1. Whom would it profit to terrify or to kill James Sinclair?
- 恐吓或者干掉詹姆斯·辛克莱对谁会有好处？
- 2. Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
- 他们在该地区的行动是精心谋划的，意在恐吓土地所有者放弃手中的地产。
- 3. Don't let the title of Kelly's book terrify you.
- 不要被凯利的著作的名称吓到.
- 4. The aim of the terrorists is to terrify people!
- 恐怖份子的目的就是令大众感到恐慌!
- 5. Now, it's the thoughts in our head that terrify us the most.
- 现在, 令我们感到最害怕的,是我们自己头脑中的想法.