spook

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英语专业八级

spook 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 幽灵, 鬼

vt. 惊吓, 鬼怪般地出没

vi. 惊吓而逃窜, 受惊

英文释义

v. frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

spook 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 spook 在自然语境里怎么用：

Instead, the moves are competitive posturing meant to spook the opponent.

—— Bruce the parrot is missing his upper beak —‬ but that hasn't stopped him from becoming an undefeated jousting champion

Anthropic, was apparently so spooked by the vulnerability-discovery capabilities of Mythos, they decided not to release it as it was "too dangerous" (lol).

—— Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

And with tariffs landing on the heels of historic inflation, companies big and small have argued that they ate much of the cost to avoid spooking shoppers with higher prices.

—— This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website

At the EU summit in Cyprus this week, leaders were sufficiently spooked as to want to explore a once little-known clause of the EU treaty - the mutual defence article 42.7.

—— Katya Adler: Europe's Nato allies push back at reported US threat to Spain

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