terrorize

英 [ˈterəraɪz]

美 [ˈterəraɪz]

v.  恐吓; 恫吓; 威胁

过去分词：terrorized　过去式：terrorized　现在分词：terrorizing　第三人称单数：terrorizes　

Collins.1 / BNC.22982 / COCA.11381

牛津词典

verb

• 恐吓；恫吓；威胁
  to frighten and threaten people so that they will not oppose sth or will do as they are told
  1. drug dealers terrorizing the neighbourhood
     使附近地区人心惶惶的毒品贩子
  2. People were terrorized into leaving their homes.
     人们在恫吓之下离开家园。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 terrorise


• VERB 使惊恐;恐吓;威胁
  If someoneterrorizesyou, they keep you in a state of fear by making it seem likely that they will attack you.
  1. Bands of gunmen have hijacked food shipments and terrorized relief workers.
     几伙持枪歹徒劫持了运输的食品，还恐吓了救援人员。
  2. ...pensioners terrorised by anonymous telephone calls.
     受到匿名电话恐吓的领取养老金的人

英英释义

verb

• fill with terror
  Synonym:terrifyterrorise
• coerce by violence or with threats
  Synonym:terrorise

双语例句

• They terrorize villages, sleep with what women they please, eat off of others and do no work.
  这些人在村里为祸一方，到处搞女人，抢食物，就是不劳动。
• Several futile attempts to terrorize the Poseidons were attempted by the Aryans, and each was quelled.
  雅利安人几度徒劳地企图恐吓波塞顿人，但每次都被平息。
• In this declaration, the king promised not to terrorize Babylon nor destroy its institutions and culture.
  在这个宣告中，国王承诺不会对巴比伦实行恐怖统治，也不会破坏它的社会制度和文化。
• Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.
  更极端的是，这种策略甚至会让人身险恐惧。
• How had this monster been allowed to terrorize the poor girl unchallenged? he wondered.
  怎么会让这个恶魔欺凌那个可怜的姑娘如此之久，而没受到制止和制裁呢？
• If you want to terrorize, and think that it's your right to ban the free women from wearing the Burka.
  如果你们想要实施恐吓政策，认为你们有权禁止女性穿戴布卡的权利。
• Even as we come to learn how this happened and who's responsible, we may never understand what leads anyone to terrorize their fellow human beings.
  即便是我们在调查该案件如何发生以及谁是肇事者的时候，我们始终也无法理解是什么样的事情让一个人如此残忍的对待他的人类同胞。
• Control of gang activity is a very serious police responsibility because youth gangs can terrorize a neighborhood.
  控制流氓集团的行动已成为警察的重任，因为这种集团能使一个地段的居民陷入恐怖之中。
• A thrush overhears him telling the news of the weakness to the dwarves and leaves to inform Bard at Lake-town, which is a good thing because the dragon has left the mountain to terrorize the townspeople.
  有人偷听到了他告诉矮人龙的弱点的消息，并去告知了长湖镇的巴尔德，这是好事，因为史矛革随后离开了山，袭击了镇民。
• The hybrid mutants were used to terrorize those who opposed them in Aryan and Og, and on one occasion this was futilely attempted in Poseida.
  混合突变体被用来恐吓那些在雅利安和OG反对他们的人，这一次对波塞顿人的企图是徒劳无功的。