喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/令人害怕的；嚇人的

    Making you feel afraid or nervous — used about a thing, a place, an experience, or an idea that gives you that feeling, not about the person who feels it.

    示範例句 · Example

    The storm last night was really frightening.

    逐字昨晚的那場暴風雨真的是令人害怕的。

    「frightening」形容的是「讓人害怕的那個東西」——一場暴風雨、一次經驗、一個地方、一個念頭都可以，重點在它會讓人心跳加快、緊張起來。可以想成 -ing 的形容詞是「把感覺送出去」的那一邊，-ed 是「接到感覺」的那一邊：The storm was frightening.（暴風雨嚇人）對上 I was frightened.（我很害怕），bored／boring、tired／tiring 也是同一個畫面。日常聊天台灣學生更常聽到 scary，兩個意思一樣，只是 frightening 語氣稍微正式一些；要再更強就換成 terrifying。

    常見搭配

    • very frightening

      非常嚇人

      causing a strong feeling of fear

      The first few days in a new place can be very frightening.

    • a frightening experience

      一次嚇人的經驗

      something that happened to you and made you afraid

      Being lost in the night market was a frightening experience for Leo.

    • the most frightening thing / experience

      最嚇人的事／經驗

      the thing that made you more afraid than anything else

      The most frightening thing was that the lights went out too.

    • it's frightening to think ...

      一想到…就讓人害怕

      used to say that an idea makes you feel afraid

      It's frightening to think how easily a small fire can spread.

    • rather / quite frightening

      有點嚇人

      frightening, but not in the strongest way

      The old bridge was rather frightening, so we held hands and walked slowly.

    • too frightening for someone

      對某人來說太嚇人

      more frightening than a particular person can enjoy or handle

      That film is too frightening for a five-year-old.

    意思相反

    comfortingreassuringcalmingsoothing

core核心畫面

You can picture frightening as pointing at the source, not the : the dark road, the loud noise, the number on the medical report — the thing that sends the fear out. The -ing ending marks the side that produces the effect, so a frightening film is the film that makes people afraid, never the film that feels afraid.

可以想成這個字的箭頭指向「來源」而不是「感受的人」：那條沒有燈的路、那個突然的巨響、報告上那個數字——是它把害怕送出去的。-ing 字尾標記的是製造效果的那一邊，所以 a frightening film 是讓人害怕的片子，不會是「感到害怕的片子」。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

意思相反

comfortingreassuringcalmingsoothing

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

frighteningadj/ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/

  • 1

    Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.

    • Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
    • The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business.
  • 2

    Awful, terrible, very bad.

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