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frighten ['fraɪtn.]

vt. 使惊吓

vi. 惊恐

He frightened the old man into giving him all the money.
他恐吓那位老人把所有的钱都给了他。
The little baby was frightened by the fierce dog.
那个小孩被恶狗吓坏了。
The children's shouts frightened off the birds.
孩子们的喊声把鸟儿吓飞了。

frighten

[ verb ]

cause fear in

<verb.emotion>

affright

fright

scare

The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
Ghosts could never affright her

drive out by frightening

<verb.emotion>

Frighten \Fright"en\, v. t. [imp. {Frightened}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Frightening}.] [See {Fright}, v. t.]
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or
fright; to affright; to terrify.

More frightened than hurt. --Old Proverb.

The legislation would violate privacy rights, foster discrimination against homosexuals and frighten away from testing members of high-risk groups, critics maintain.
We don't want to frighten them but to prepare them.' Even so, the aftermath of an attack on a branch may be difficult for employees to cope with.
SWAPO said the assassination of Lubowski was intended to create instability prior to the elections, which SWAPO is widely favored to dominate, and to frighten whites at a time when racial unity is growing.
Noriega's fellow officers will block anything more than a short-term, tactical shift engineered to frighten the U.S.
"The economy has started to frighten people a bit about overextending in capital investments," said Albert W. Moore, the association's president, who nevertheless projects a recovery by the second half of 1991.
Wildlife biologists blasted gas-powered cannons to frighten birds from nesting marshes where a 175,000-gallon oil spill has killed at least 130 birds, as a frantic cleanup continued under threat of rain.
Why frighten people?" asked Col. Gen.
Navy volunteers this week set off fireworks and fired guns to frighten the flock of doves, and on Thursday spotted only four doves in three hours.
He said he decided to step forward for fear that she would be told by someone else who might frighten her.
"Let us not frighten people with shock therapy, neither you nor we are interested in this." Likov pressed his argument, saying such a course of action had caused 3,700 percent annual inflation in Argentina.
Fontaine, interviewed Friday night by the radio station Europe 1, said his worst moment came when his captors staged mock executions, holding a pistol to his neck while firing another gun to frighten him.
About 200 yards have been added to the course since '63, but at 7,010 yards its length still will frighten few in this long-hitting era.
The Forest Service says it's concerned that the music, along with 1,000 or more people tromping through the woods, might frighten the adult owls from their nest, leaving their fledglings behind.
The tour employs a multimedia approach to create realistic scenes that can frighten and thrill audiences, unlike Disney's more gentle approach.
But this time the dollar's weakness may frighten away many institutions.
Fontaine, interviewed Friday night by the French radio station Europe 1, said his worst moments during captivity came when his kidnappers staged mock executions, holding a pistol to his neck, then firing another weapon to frighten him.
Commenting on the speech, Kim accused government hardliners of attempting to create a false sense of crisis to frighten people into supporting Roh and justifying restraints on government opponents.
Analysts had expected the outlook for falling cattle profits to frighten feedlot operators into rapidly trimming operations.
Travel agents aren't likely to view Sears as a big threat, Gilmore said. "The travel market has so much growth potential that the entry of Sears would not frighten a good professional travel agent anywhere," he said.
Although the candidate for prime minister, a former federal minister named Bjoern Engholm, promised that he would do everything to attract business and not to frighten it away, the SPD ticket was the farthest-left wing ever offered in any German election.
But simply requiring phone companies to report purchases could frighten them from buying foreign-made goods, a Commerce Department telecommunications official said.
He intends to be a driving force for another big step towards European integration at the 1996 EU intergovernmental conference. However, German policy-makers are keen not to frighten their partners - not least the British - from the conference table.
"I'm not going to go out there and try to do something that might inadvertently suggest crisis and frighten markets," he told a news conference.
Milton Bass, a New York attorney for Zenith, asserted that the appeals court's ruling will spur civil suits against other drug companies that have "conducted campaigns to frighten doctors and others not to use generic drugs."
"I know there will be people who can't sleep at night and there will be more calls to exterminators because of this movie," Kutcher said in a recent interview. "But I don't want to frighten people with spiders.
There were accounts of satanic rites and animals tortured to frighten the youngsters into silence.
This is still the most awkward corner Mr Major faces; for although the current account should in theory be a mere memorandum item in a world of free capital movements, a big deficit can still frighten the markets.
Why frighten people?" asked Carlucci's host, Col. Gen.
But if the developer meant to frighten bondholders Thursday with the specter of a Chapter 11 filing, it didn't work.
That prompted a lawsuit against the city by Winter Texans, who claimed the ad contained misleading information intended to frighten the visitors away from the polls.

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