Fear so strong it takes over your whole body — you freeze, your heart pounds, you can't think straight. Not just being nervous, but that gripped, cold, breath-stopping kind of fear.
From the word’s history
From Latin terror 'great fear, dread', from terrere 'to fill with fear, to frighten'. The word starts life as the feeling itself — being filled with fear.
來自拉丁文 terror「巨大的恐懼」，源自動詞 terrere「使人充滿恐懼、嚇壞」。這個字最早指的就是「被恐懼灌滿」的那種感覺，所以核心一直是那份強烈的害怕本身。
Online Etymology Dictionary, etymonline.com/word/terror
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原始詞典資料8 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。
Terrorname
- 1
governmenthistoryhuman-sciencesThe Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
- 2
governmenthistoryhuman-sciencesAny specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
terrornoun/ˈtɛɹɚ/
- 1
Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
- "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
- 2
The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- 3
Something or someone that causes such fear.
- The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
- The terrors of the storm
- 4
Terrorism.
- a terror attack
- the War on Terror
- 5
medicinepathologysciencesA night terror.
terroradj/ˈtɛɹɚ/
- 1
slangA strict teacher who fails most of the students.
- I have a terror math teacher.
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