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

• 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。
• The ruling could scare off other foreign investors by sending a message to activist funds that companies can discriminate against unwelcome shareholders.
  此项裁决可能会吓跑其他外国投资者，因为它向激进的基金传递了这样一个信号：公司可能会区别对待不受欢迎的股东。
• 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。
• Yet east London also needs better schools; the current crop scare off some of the young, ambitious families that the area needs, while those who choose to stay deserve better.
  伦敦东区也需要更好的学校。现状已经吓跑了一些年轻有为的家庭&这个地区需要这样的家庭，而那些留下来的家庭也应得更好的学校。
• 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。
• Don't get closer, or you will scare off those cute birds.
  不要再靠近了，不然你会把那些可爱的鸟给吓跑。
• This is a fake video camera which you fix to your wall to scare off burglars.
  这是一个假摄像机，你放在墙上吓跑贼的。
• But his generous offer was high enough to scare off potential private-equity bidders.
  但是他慷慨的出价高的足以吓退那些潜在的私募股权投资家们。
• The uncertainties over supplies into Crimea as well as political instability will scare off tourists, 70% of whom were from Ukraine last year.
  水电气等民生物资供应的不确定性以及政局的不稳定将吓跑游客，去年赴克里米亚旅游的游客有70%来自乌克兰。