v. (动词)
- 使气馁，使泄气，使失去信心
- 使胆怯，使害怕，使畏缩，恐吓，威吓，吓倒，威胁
- 难倒
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:
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cause to lose courage;
"dashed by the refusal"
用作及物动词 (vt.)
- Danger didn't daunt the hero.
危险并没有吓住那英雄。
- I was rather daunted by 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。
- No difficulties in the world can daunt us.
世界上任何困难都吓不倒我们。
- Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.
再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
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。
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- 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。
v. (动词)
- daunt, appal, dismay, horrify
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- 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
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无所畏惧；毫不气馁confident about sth difficult you have to do
