scare off

英 [skeə(r) ɒf]

美 [sker ɔːf]

吓跑; 吓退; 把…吓跑

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吓跑
  If youscare offorscare awaya person or animal, you frighten them so that they go away.
  1. ...an alarm to scare off an attacker.
     用来吓跑袭击者的警报器
  2. ...the problem of scaring birds away from airport runways.
     把鸟轰离机场跑道的难题
• PHRASAL VERB 吓退;把…吓跑
  If youscaresomeoneoff, you accidentally make them unwilling to become involved with you.
  1. I don't think that revealing your past to your boyfriend scared him off...
     我并不认为是因为你把自己的过去向男朋友坦白才把他吓跑的。
  2. The new Democratic Party is not likely to scare off voters.
     新成立的民主党不太可能吓跑选民。

英英释义

verb

• cause to lose courage
  1. dashed by the refusal
  Synonym:dauntdashpallfrighten offscare awayfrighten awayscare

双语例句

• The decoy camera can be fixed to the wall to scare off burglars.
  假相机可以固定在墙上吓走夜间行窃的窃贼。
• Entrepeneurs are afraid of doing it. They're worried they're going to scare off future investors.
  创业者们害怕这么做，可能会吓跑未来的投资者。
• He was the only one who could put the shadows away and scare off the wardrobe monster.
  他是唯一能抹去阴影，并吓走衣柜里怪物的人。
• Michael Hart, head of research for North China at Jones land LaSalle, says the new measures are not designed to scare off foreign investment, but to give the government more information about who is investing where.
  仲量联行北中华区研究主管何迈克（michaelhart）表示，新政的意图并非要吓跑外国投资，而是让政府得到更多有关谁在投资、在哪儿投资的信息。
• Coming across as being needy is a quick way to scare off potential friends.
  以一个急切的方式去结识对方会很快地把潜在的朋友给吓跑。
• The threat of the government taking stakes would scare off some private investors.
  政府介入行为所引发的恐慌也许会吓跑部分私人投资者。
• If you can't handle the application, you are not going to get through the course, which is very intense. We do want to scare off people who are not right for the programme.
  如果你对付不了申请表，就上不好课，而课程是很紧张的。我们确实想把不适于这门课的人吓走。
• Sure, you may go too far in your pursuit of pleasure and scare off an overly sensitive individual, but it's better to play hard than to play it safe and miss out on all of the fun.
  当然，你可能会在追求玩乐的路上走的太远，而你过度敏感的性格使你感到害怕了。但是疯狂地去玩可你比保守娱乐要好得多，否则你会失去很多乐趣的。
• The first choice is a simple alarm to scare off potential burglars and perhaps alert neighbors.
  第一份是安装最基本的警报系统建议，用途是当警钟触发后可将贼人吓退及警醒邻居。
• Baby tiger at this stage will instinctively bare its teeth, tighten its nose and bark to scare off invaders.
  此时的小虎只会本能地紧鼻龇牙，面露凶相，并以尖声的吼叫吓退来犯者。