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恐懼;驚恐;恐慌
Terror is very great fear.
例句
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...
每次坐飛機前,我都嚇得直發(fā)抖。
The day of terror ended after police used teargas and stormed the house.
警察使用了催淚瓦斯攻入屋子以后,恐懼的一天結束了。
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(尤指有政治目的的)恐怖活動,恐怖主義
Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons.
例句
The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.
對首都的炸彈襲擊可能標志著選舉前的恐怖活動開始了。
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恐怖的事物
A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
例句
As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.
小時候,他特別害怕見人。
...the terrors of violence.
恐怖的暴力行為
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討厭的小孩;淘氣鬼;小搗蛋
If someone describes a child as a terror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control.
例句
He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
他是個淘氣鬼,從小就不老實。
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完全嚇不倒;讓人絲毫不焦慮
If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
例句
Childbirth now held fewer terrors for her than it once had.
她現在不像原來那樣害怕分娩了。