| 词组 | scared |
| 释义 | scared 1. When used with a preposition, scared is most often followed by of • I am scared of rats —Graham Greene, Another Mexico, 1939 • He tells us as much about the Presidency as he does about the C.I.A., and he leaves me scared stiff of both —John le Carré, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 14 Oct. 1979 • "... I think he was scared of what you'd say to him, that's why he took off." —John Updike, New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1981 It is also used quite commonly with about, at, and by: • ... a weak government allows bigger wage increases than it ought to; then it gets scared about them — The Economist, in Atlas, December 1969 • Many Democrats were scared stiff at the prospect of being out of step with the mood of the country — Tip O'Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, 1987 • ... obviously scared by the prestige and the mass base the Communists built up during the war — Alfred Kazin, Partisan Rev., May 1948 Scared is also followed by to and the infinitive: • I ain't laughed so much since the time John Potter got on the bear's back without no knife, and rode him round like a hoss, and was scared to get off! — William C. Hall, "How Sally Hooter Got Snakebit," 1850, in The Mirth of a Nation, ed. Walter Blair & Raven I. McDavid, Jr., 1983 • What they said to him was that he was a country boy in the city, scared to go out on the street —Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories, 1985 2. The combination scared of has been disparaged by a handful of commentators ( Vizetelly 1906, Krapp 1927, Weseen 1928, Partridge 1942, and Freeman 1983), all of whom have recommended afraid in place of scared. The earlier examples and these that follow show that it is standard. It is more common in speech—real and fictional—and in casual and informal prose than it is in highly serious writing. It may have originated as an Americanism (its exact origin is uncertain), but it is now used in both American and British English. • ... I'd be as scared of snakes if we did it every night for a year —Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935 • ... the experienced Georgia Sothern, who doesn't look at all scared of anything —George Jean Nathan, The Entertainment of a Nation, 1942 • Americans seem less scared ... of some European countries than others —The Economist, 26 Apr. 1986 |
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