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

• Vitamin B does not scare off mosquitoes.
  维他命B并不能吓走蚊子。
• Mr vyugin said the best policy would be to move to a "dirty float" in which the central bank could intervene without warning so as to scare off speculators and then the currency would stabilise.
  丘金表示，最佳的政策应该是转向“肮脏浮动汇率制度”（dirtyfloat），这样央行就可以在不预先通告的情况下进行干预，以便吓跑投机者这样卢布汇率就将趋于稳定。
• 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。
• I figured somebody was trying to scare off the workers.
  我想是有人想把这些工人吓走。
• 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。