terror的读法

1. [U]恐怖; 恐怖活动 very great fear; violent action for political purposes
2. [S]引起恐怖的人〔事〕 sb/sth that causes extreme fear
3. [C]讨厌的人 an annoying person, especially a child

1.恐惧;惊恐;恐慌
Terror is very great fear.

terror什么意思

e.g. I shook withterror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...
每次坐飞机前，我都吓得直发抖。
e.g. The day ofterror ended after police used teargas and stormed the house.
警察使用了催泪瓦斯攻入屋子以后，恐惧的一天结束了。

2.(尤指有政治目的的)恐怖活动，恐怖主义
Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons.

e.g. The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-electionterror campaign.
对首都的炸弹袭击可能标志着选举前的恐怖活动开始了。

3.恐怖的事物
Aterror is something that makes you very frightened.

e.g. As a boy, he had a realterror of facing people.
小时候，他特别害怕见人。
e.g. ...the terrors of violence.
恐怖的暴力行为

4.讨厌的小孩;淘气鬼;小捣蛋
If someone describes a child as aterror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control.

e.g. He was aterror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
他是个淘气鬼，从小就不老实。

5.完全吓不倒；让人丝毫不焦虑
If somethingholds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.

terror在线翻译

e.g. Childbirth now held fewer terrors for her than it once had.
她现在不像原来那样害怕分娩了。

6. to live interror -> see live
reign ofterror -> see reign

• add to sb's terror使某人更恐惧
• cause〔inspire〕 terror引起恐怖
• feel terror感到恐惧

• growing terror越来越恐怖
• increasing terror日益加剧的恐怖

• in terror惊慌地
• reign of terror恐怖统治
• fill with terror充满恐惧

• terror for speed过于追求速度的人
• terror for work对工作过分入迷的人
• the terror of religion宗教的恐怖

• The terror in which she wakes, her pulse racing.

  出自：L. Hudson

• He lived in terror that his all-consuming love would..force her to reject him.

  出自：G. Daly

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的terreur；最初源自拉丁语的terrorem，意为恐慌。