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

• You want to scare off my staffs?
  你想吓死我的伙计吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Light a fire to scare off the wolves.
  点起火来把狼吓跑。
• He was the only one who could put the shadows away and scare off the wardrobe monster.
  他是唯一能抹去阴影，并吓走衣柜里怪物的人。
• 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。
• Vitamin B does not scare off mosquitoes.
  维他命B并不能吓走蚊子。
• The boys made enough noise to scare off any animals.
  男孩子们大叫大嚷，什么野兽都给吓跑了。
• 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。