petrify 详细解释
petrify
['petrifai]
vt. 使石化, 使发呆
vi. 石化
vt.
1. 【地】使石化
2. 使僵化, 使丧失活力
3. 使惊呆, 把……吓呆
The bird was petrified as the snake came near.
当蛇爬近时, 鸟儿惊呆了。
vi.
1. 【地】石化
2. 僵化, 丧失活力
3. 惊呆; 吓呆
词形变化
动词过去式: petrified | 动词过去分词: petrified | 动词现在分词: petrifying | 动词第三人称单数: petrifies |
词义辨析
同义:
vt.使吓呆
英英释义
动词 petrify:
cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
change into stone
同义词：lapidify
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
补充
petrifypetrify英:[ˈpetrifai] 美:[ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ]vt. & vi.1.吓呆, 使麻木例句
1. Prison petrifies me and I don't want to go there.监狱让我害怕, 我不想去那里。 2. It is feared that a political deadlock may petrify economic initiatives.人们担心政治僵局可能使经济丧失活力。 3. An excess of 'dramatic seriousness' would lead one to quickly petrify and become his own statue.过分的“严肃认真”会让人快速僵化, 使自己变成一尊雕像。 4. The Petrified Forest National Park is located in Arizona of U.S.A.石化森林国家公园位于美国亚利桑那州。 5. Redundant slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking.口号过多容易使人思想僵化。 6. She was petrified with terror.她被吓得目瞪口呆。 7. The cement petrified after many years' erosion.经过多年的侵蚀，水泥石化了。 8. Principles and rules have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent.由于层层先例的累积使原则和章程变得僵化呆板了。 9. to petrify with grief悲痛欲绝 10. his icy controlled quietness petrified her.他克制住自己，那种冰冷的沉默把她吓呆了。 11. [as adj. petrified]the petrified child clung to the side of her mother.吓呆的孩子紧紧地靠着母亲。 12. [withobj.]death merely petrifies things for those who go on living.对活下去的人而言，死亡只是使事物丧失活力。 13. [noobj.]the inner life of the old system petrified.旧制度的内在生命僵化了。 14. It petrifies [=terrifies] me to think of how close we came to dying.想到我们曾离死亡那么近我都吓坏了。 15. the processes that petrify wood使木头石化的过程 16. The dead tree petrified into stone.枯木石化成了石头热门单词推荐
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