scare1 /skeə $ sker/ ●●● S2 verb 1 [transitiveT]FRIGHTENED to make someone feel frightened 使〔某人〕惊恐,吓唬 SYN frighten, → afraid Loud noises can scare animals or birds. 噪声太大会惊吓到鸟兽。
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of somebody (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得魂不附体 The alarm scared the hell out of me. 警报声把我的魂都吓没了。
scare the pants off somebody informal (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得屁滚尿流
2 scare easily FRIGHTENEDto 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!
scare easily• Being a police officer isn't a job for someone who scares easily.• When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.• I don't think I scare easily, but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.• I'll go down and see what that noise was. I don't scare easily you know. 3 scare somebody into something phrasal verbphr v FRIGHTENEDto make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them 恐吓,威胁scare somebody into doing something You can’t scare me into telling you anything. 你吓唬我也没用,我不会告诉你的。
4 scare somebody/something ↔ off/away phrasal verbphr v a) FRIGHTENEDto make an animal or person go away by frightening them 把…吓跑 She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away. 她动作很轻,不想把鸟儿吓走。
b) PREVENTto 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. 涨价把很多潜在顾客都吓跑了。
5 scare something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v American EnglishAmE informal MAKEto make something although you have very few things to make it from 〔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。