alarmed• But experts at the Coney HillPsychiatric Hospital are alarmed.• But prominentpsychologists and psychiatrists are alarmed.• If you already have a timber-frame house, however, do not be alarmed!• But by that time Pius had become alarmed at the pace of change.• A person who is alarmed experiences a suddenfear or apprehension of danger - some sort of anxiety.• He had expressed a similar thought to a neurologist friend of his once, to receive an alarmed look in reply.• Realising that something had gone wrong, the alarmedminer was making his way out of the pit.• Alarmedstorekeeperslocked their doors.• She became alarmed when she could not waken her husband.
alarmed to see/hear etc• Down from one corner of her mouth Wilson was alarmed to see a thintrickle of dark red blood.• She was alarmed to hear a very obviouslack of conviction in her voice, though.• Peering round, she was alarmed to see no sign of life in the emptywastes.• She stopped short just inside the kitchen door, startled and alarmed to see such a change in Elizabeth.• Their classmates and the parents of those classmates are alarmed to see the quality of academialowered.• Handicappeddrivers were also alarmed to hear they would be prevented from using the streets like all other drivers.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤be, feel, look, seem, sound害怕;感到害怕;看上去害怕;好像害怕;聽起來害怕▸➤become, get, grow害怕起來;開始感到害怕◇She began to grow alarmed when she realized how late it was.她意識到天有多晚時,變得害怕起來。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常擔憂▸➤seriously非常擔憂▸➤increasingly越來越擔憂▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些擔憂▸➤(not) unduly(並沒有)過分擔憂◇The government is not unduly alarmed by these figures.政府並沒有因這些數字而過分擔憂。PREPOSITION➤at對⋯感到害怕◇She was alarmed at the prospect of being alone.一想到要孤身一人她就感到害怕。➤by因⋯感到擔憂◇I was slightly alarmed by what Susan told me.蘇珊的話讓我有點兒擔憂。PHRASES➤nothing to be alarmed about沒什麼可擔心的◇The doctors have decided to keep him overnight but there is nothing to be alarmed about.醫生決定讓他留院一晚,但這沒什麼可擔心的。