| 词汇 | terrorize |
| 释义 | terrorize verb[ T ] (UK usuallyterrorise)uk /ˈter.ə.raɪz/ us /ˈter.ə.raɪz/ to make someone feel very frightened by threatening to kill or hurt them: 恐吓，威胁;使惊恐不安 Street gangs have been terrorizing the neighbourhood.一直以来，街头流氓团伙闹得四邻不安。 Compare terrify Frightening and scaring chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight frighten/scare someone out of their witsidiom ghoulish ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of someoneidiom scare/frighten the life out of someoneidiom scaremongering shiver witless Examples of terrorizeterrorize Nevertheless, the impermissibility of the act is still established on grounds other than the presence of the intention to harm and terrorize. How she manages to persuade, cajole, and terrorize colleagues to undertake reviews and, more importantly, to deliver them on time is a well-kept secret. Is it permissible to threaten to do what it is impermissible actually to do as a way of terrorizing? He wrote to impress, to shock, to frighten and terrorize. I reckon these are efforts to terrorize and sow discord. So perhaps producing terror by threatening to do what it is impermissible to do is wrong if it will not also benefit those terrorized. You don't want to spread terror in the community to people who don't need to be terrorized. The destiny of reason is to beckon faith, not terrorize it. He also intends death, but not necessarily to terrorize others. This contrasts with a painful means of doing what is in their self-interest (as when we terrorize someone to get him to escape a flood). Harming and terrorizing are also a goal of action but are not sufficient on their own. If the victims act shamefully, then they may wish they had been harmed instead of terrorized in this way. He may choose between nonserious harming and terrorizing on these grounds. Much depended on one's ability to impress or terrorize the target. Perhaps it involves the agent not only intending harm and terror but also intending that those harmed and terrorized know that it is his intention to harm and terrorize them. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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