Panic
['pænɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
(noun.) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; 'panic in the stock market'; 'a war scare'; 'a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building'.
(verb.) cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; 'The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners'.
(verb.) be overcome by a sudden fear; 'The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away'.
編輯:洛娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
(a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
(a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
(a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
手打:兰斯洛特
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fright, affright, alarm, terror, consternation, sudden fear.
校對:托妮
解釋/意思:
n. extreme or sudden fright: great terror without any visible ground or foundation: a state of terror about investments produced by some startling collapse in credit impelling men to rush and sell what they possess.—adj. of the nature of a panic: extreme or sudden: imaginary.—adj. Pan′icky (coll.) inclined to panic or sudden terror affected by financial panic.—n. Pan′ic-mong′er one who creates panics.—adjs. Pan′ic-strick′en Pan′ic-struck struck with a panic or sudden fear.
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例句/造句/用法:
- And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- An instant later I heard him running down, and he burst into my consulting-room like a man who is mad with panic. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Ord attacked the troops that had crossed the bridge and drove them back in a panic. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The retreat of the enemy along most of his line was precipitate and the panic so great that Bragg and his officers lost all control over their men. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I have only hobbled those which are liable to panic, Pablo said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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