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  1. 1aB1/skerd/ · /skeəd/害怕

    Feeling afraid or worried that something bad might happen.

    Feeling afraid or worried感到害怕或擔心 that something bad might happen可能會發生不好的事。

    示範例句 · Example

    At first, Sam was really scared on the tall slide.

    逐字一開始，山姆在那座高高的溜滑梯上真的很害怕。

    scared 是形容「一個人感到害怕」的日常字，比 afraid 更口語、更常在生活裡講。重點：scared 是『人』心裡的感覺，令人害怕的東西要用 scary。常見句型：scared of（怕某物）、scared to do（不敢做某事）、scared that（擔心會…）。

    常見搭配

    • scared of something

      害怕某物

      afraid of a particular thing

      She's scared of thunder.

    • too scared to do something

      怕到不敢做某事

      so afraid that you cannot do it

      He was too scared to jump in.

    • scared to death

      怕得要命

      extremely scared

      I was scared to death during the storm.

    • get scared

      開始害怕

      to start to feel afraid

      It got dark and we got scared.

core核心畫面

You can think of that cold jolt the moment something you — your body tightens and braces because it senses something bad might be coming. Scared is being caught inside that feeling.

可以想成有東西突然嚇到你的那一下冷顫——身體一緊、繃起來，因為它察覺可能有壞事要發生。scared 就是被困在這種感覺裡的狀態。

From the word’s history

Scared comes from the verb scare, which came from Old Norse skirra 'to frighten', tied to skjarr 'timid, shy, easily startled'. So the word carries an old sense of a creature that flinches and shrinks back.

scared 來自動詞 scare，而 scare 源自古北歐語 skirra（使人害怕），跟 skjarr（膽小、容易受驚）有關。所以這個字裡本來就帶著「一受驚就縮起來、往後退」的味道。

etymonline.com/word/scare (Old Norse skirra 'to frighten', related to skjarr 'timid, shy')

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原始詞典資料2 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。

scaredadj/skɛəd/

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    Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

    • I’m scared I’ll miss the train.
    • I got scared silly.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。