petrify
petrify 英 [ˈpetrɪfaɪ] 美 [ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ]
vi. 石化；惊呆 vt. 使…石化；使…惊呆
进行时:petrifying 过去式:petrified 过去分词:petrified 第三人称单数:petrifies
- If you scare someone so much they can't move, you petrify them. Petrify is to make something like a stone or to literally turn to stone.
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- vi. 石化；惊呆
- vt. 使…石化；使…惊呆
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1. Prison petrifies me and I don't want to go there.
监狱令我十分害怕，我不想去那儿。
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2. Slogans petrify our thinking.
口号僵化了我们的思想。
- petrify (v.) 1590s, from Middle French pétrifier "to make or become stone" (16c.), from Latin petra "rock, crag" (see petrous) + -ficare, combining form of facere "to make, do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Metaphoric sense of "paralyze with fear or shock" first recorded 1771. Related: Petrified; petrifying.
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