| 词汇 | take fright |
| 释义 | take frighttake fright FRIGHTENEDto be very afraid of something, especially so that you run away from it or do not do something that you were going to do 受惊吓〔尤指因而逃走或未做计划的事情〕 The bird took fright and flew away. 鸟儿受了惊吓，飞走了。 She had promised to marry him, but took fright at the last moment. 她答应嫁给他，但是到了最后一刻又畏缩了。 Examples from the Corpus take fright• Men had died because an untrained horse had taken fright at the sound of musketry.• If the telephones had rung you would have taken fright.• Lennon, however, took fright and hurried into a shot which sped wide of the target.• But when the City looked at the gap where macroeconomic policy should have been, it took fright.• The men steadying it took fright, threw down their long tongs, and fled.• Market makers took fright, presuming some one knew something they did not, and the price tumbled 30 p.c.• Kafka and Milena take fright and run off in different directions.• I approached him, but he did not take fright. → take fright at fright(1) |
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