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基本双解英英辨析短语近义反义句型例句例句
vt.使…胆怯²⁵;恐吓⁷⁵副词dauntingly名词daunter过去分词daunted现在分词daunting三单daunts
v.动词
vt. 使胆怯；使气馁；使失去信心make sb feel nervous and less confident of doing sth
Verb:
cause to lose courage;dashed by the refusal
v.动词
daunt, appal, dismay, horrify这组词的共同意思是“引起惊恐、忧郁或使丧失勇气”。其区别在于:dismay指因前景令人沮丧或对某事束手无策,而失去继续干某事的力量; appal指足以把人吓瘫的恐惧,也指遇到无法改变的、使人惊愕的事或物所表现出的无能为力; daunt强调试图干大胆的事,但被威胁或压制,因而停止或退却; 而horrify指见到令人毛骨悚然的东西时的一种恐惧和发抖的反应,也可指失去尊严所引起的暂时的厌恶感。 用作动词v.nothing daunted无所畏惧；毫不气馁confident about sth difficult you have to do 近义词 dash猛冲deter阻止dismay沮丧faze使担忧pall遮盖物scare受惊吓put off不安overawe威慑subdue使服从overwhelm打击unnerve使气馁horrify使恐惧scare off吓跑discourage阻碍frighten使惊吓intimidate胁迫scare away吓跑appall使 … 胆寒dishearten使沮丧frighten off吓跑frighten away吓跑unman使失去男子气概…demoralize使士气低落
用作动词v.
用作及物动词
S+ ～+n./pron.Danger did not daunt the hero.危险并没有吓倒这位英雄。
He was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary.词典上最长的词也难不倒他。
She was not at all daunted by the size of the problem.她一点也不为问题的严重性所吓倒。
He was daunted by the high quality of work they expected.他被他们对工作的高品质的要求吓倒了。其他She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead.她是一个勇敢的女人，但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。
It is a daunting prospect for a party so recently formed.对一个新近成立的政党来说，这一前景令人极其气馁。
She was a fine though somewhat daunting director.她是个很好的主管，虽说有点令人望而生畏。
She has the daunting task of cooking for 20 people every day.她每天得做20个人的饭，这是一项可怕的任务。
Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。
动词88%,名词12%
I was ratherdauntedby the thought of addressing such an audience.我一想到要对这样的听众讲话，就有些胆小。 But it remains dauntingly unclear where new leadership will come from.
截至目前，人们仍不清楚利比亚新的领导层将从何处产生。 blog.sina.com.cn
In a world with networked and highly virtualized storage, database storage design can appear like a dauntingly complex task for a DBA or system architect to get right.
随着存储的网络化和高度虚拟化，对于 DBA或系统架构师来说，数据库存储设计似乎是一项极其复杂的任务。 ibm
It urgently needs to stop playing dead and face its dauntingly uncertain future.
该党迫切需要停止其装死的把戏，直面其前景实难预料的未来。 ecocn
The cliff looks dauntingly steep. Climbing it means long queues at Western consulates before facing the suspicious officials inside them.
峭壁高耸，看起来令人畏惧，攀爬它意味着要在西德领事馆前排着长队，然后还要面对领事馆内充满狐疑的官员。 ecocn
The process is often dauntingly complex and can't easily be tackled without the aid of some type of tooling platform.
过程总是令人畏缩的复杂，如果某类工具平台的帮助去处理过程会是很长困难的。 ibm
California alone, where races must be fought mostly with TV ads, is dauntingly expensive.
唯独加州，选战主要是靠电视广告，费用惊人。 ecocn
Even if the pace of modification quickens, the overhang of unsold homes will remain dauntingly large.
即使修改贷款协议的步骤加快，未售房屋的积压将会处于令人恐惧 的高位。 ecocn
Even in America the bills will be dauntingly large.
即使在美国，这个账单也会是惊人的庞大。 ecocn
If not, it would be kicked forward into the next Senate, with its much reduced Democratic majority, where the67 votes necessary for ratification look like a dauntingly steep climb.
若该条约遭到搁置，将交由下一届参议院表决，那时民主党在参议院的多数党优势已被大幅削弱，要确保条约获批所需的67票或将难如登天。 examw
It is a dauntingly long list of things to go right.
这是一个多么冗长的单子，才能让事情朝着正确的方向发展。 ecocn
Mr McCain will find it dauntingly hard to beat his younger, sexier, honey- tongued rival.
麦凯恩先生将发现，想击败他的这个更年轻，更迷人，说话甜言蜜语的竞争对手是很困难的。 ecocn
That makes gaining justice in a foreign court dauntingly difficult.
这使得在国外法院获得公正审判显得尤为困难。 yeeyan
This dauntingly aggressive city-state made itself the capital of Europe's biggest empire, and then became the seat of western Christendom.
这个让人畏惧的好斗城邦让自身成了欧洲最大帝国的首都，然后成了西方基督教教宗的所在地。 ecocn |