scare
verb
noun
skeə verb
1 to make someone feel frightened 使惊恐,吓唬; T
Loud noises can scare animals or birds.
很大的噪声会惊吓到鸟兽。
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (scare someone very much) 把某人吓得魂不附体
The alarm scared the hell out of me.
警报器把我的魂都吓掉了。
scare the pants off sb
2
scare easily
to be frightened by things that are not very frightening 容易受惊吓,动不动就感到害怕
I don’t scare easily, you know.
你知道我不是那么容易给吓倒的!
3 to make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them 恐吓,威胁
scare sb into doing sth
You can’t scare me into telling you anything.
你吓唬我也没用,我不会告诉你的。
4 to make an animal or person go away by frightening them 把…吓跑
She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away.
她走得很轻,以免把鸟儿吓走。
5 to make someone uncertain or worried so that they do not do something they were going to do 吓跑〔想做某事的人〕
Rising prices are scaring off many potential customers.
涨价把很多潜在的顾客都吓跑了。
6 to make something although you have very few things to make it from [美,非正式] 〔在东西不够用时〕凑合做成
Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat.
我来看看能不能给你凑合着弄点吃的。
noun
7 a sudden feeling of fear 惊恐,惊吓 singular 单数
You really gave us a scare !
你真的吓了我们一跳!
8 a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something 〔社会上的〕大恐慌 C
a bomb scare
炸弹恐吓
a health scare
健康恐慌