新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

shock

英 [ʃɒk]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

shocks
1. [C 可数名词] 震惊
If you have a shock, something suddenly happens which is unpleasant, upsetting, or very surprising.
双语例句
例：
The extent of the violence came as a shock.
暴力的程度令人震惊。
例：
He has never recovered from the shock of your brother's death.
你兄弟的死对他刺激很大，他至今都没有恢复过来。
2. [U 不可数名词] （身心受到的）惊吓
Shock is a person's emotional and physical condition when something very frightening or upsetting has happened to them.
双语例句
例：
The little boy was speechless with shock.
这个小男孩被吓得说不出话来。
3. [U 不可数名词] 休克
If someone is in shock, they are suffering from a serious physical condition in which their blood is not flowing around their body properly, for example, because they have had a bad injury.
双语例句
例：
He was found beaten and in shock.
他被发现时已被打得休克了。
4. [C, U 有变体名词] 冲击力
A shock is the force of something suddenly hitting or pulling something else.
双语例句
例：
Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.
铁栅栏会弯曲并吸收冲击力。
5. [C 可数名词] 电击
A shock is the same as an electric shock.

VERB. 动词

shocks , shocking , shocked
1. [T 及物动词] 使震惊
If something shocks you, it makes you feel very upset, because it involves death or suffering and because you had not expected it.
双语例句
例：
After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me.
在警察部门干了40年后，什么事于我而言都不足为奇。
2. [I 不及物动词] 使不快
If someone or something shocks you, it upsets or offends you because you think it is vulgar or morally wrong.
双语例句
例：
You can't shock me.
我不会被你激怒的。
例：
They were easily shocked in those days.
他们那时候动不动就对一些事情看不顺眼。
例：
the desire to shock.
希望激起反感的这种欲望。

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