| 词汇 | unnerve |
| 释义 | unnerve verb[ T ] uk /ʌnˈnɜːv/ us /ʌnˈnɝːv/ to make someone feel less confident and slightly frightened: 使紧张；使缺乏信心；使恐惧 I think it unnerved me to be interviewed by so many people.这么多人来面试我，让我很紧张。 Synonym fazeinformal Causing anxiety and worry alarming alarmingly bite catch up with someone come back to bite someoneidiom disturb dread frighten frighten someone/something away/off get/go beyond a jokeidiom give someone the jimjamsidiom give someone the jittersidiom oppressive rattle roost stressful stressfully suspenseful suspensefully suspensive Related wordsunnerving unnervingly unnerve | American Dictionaryunnerve verb[ T ] us/ʌnˈnɜrv/ to make someone feel less confident and slightly frightened: The long silence unnerved him. unnervingadjectiveus/ʌnˈnɜr·vɪŋ/ It’s the way that he stares that I find so unnerving. unnerve | Business Englishunnerve verb[ T ] uk /ʌnˈnɜːv/us to make someone feel nervous or less confident: Talk of an economic slowdown has so far failed to unnerve American markets. be unnerved by sthInvestors were unnerved by recent profit warnings. Examples of unnerveunnerve One, however, found that it was unnerving not to have a table of correspondences to consult. But it is a rattling good read that should unnerve at least some within the political science community. I do not know of one of my predominantly female students who would not be unnerved by being called a feminist. In fact, they were completely unnerved by the lack of information in the script and the absence of any kind of logic. Such correspondences are unnerving to many. I know of many normally excellent drivers who have been unnerved by the experience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is unnerving to sit on a train that does not have any staff that one can see. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is enough to unnerve an old body. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it is unnerving to find that only one-third of the domestic hearings in our magistrates' courts lasted for more than an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That combination of events has unnerved traders and that in turn has fuelled speculation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will unnerve our allies because any breach makes them uncertain about the competence of our security services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There may, indeed, be a flirtation with nationalism, which will hypnotise the nationalists as much as it unnerves the other parties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Rail, underground and bus operators have been unnerved by those events. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All were too wrung out to celebrate and too unnerved by tragedy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is the firing pin block that makes dropping the hammer with the decocker safe, albeit somewhat unnerving. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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