2N-UNCOUNT (身心受到的)打擊,震驚Shock is a person's emotional and physical condition when something very frightening or upsetting has happened to them. (身心受到的)打擊,震驚
The little boy was speechless with shock.
那小男孩驚得說不出話來。
She's still in a state of shock.
她仍驚魂未定。
3N-UNCOUNT [oft inNOUN]休克 If someone is in shock, they are suffering from a serious physical condition in which their blood is not flowing round their body properly, for example because they have had a bad injury. 休克
He was found beaten and in shock.
發現他被打得休克了。
They escaped the blaze but were rushed to hospital suffering from shock.
4VERB 使震驚;使驚愕;打擊 If something shocks you, it makes you feel very upset, because it involves death or suffering and because you had not expected it. 使震驚;使驚愕;打擊
After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me. [VERB noun]
在警隊呆了 40 年後,我對什麽都見怪不怪了。
Relief workers were shocked by what they saw. [VERB noun]
This was a nasty attack and the woman is still very shocked.
這是一次惡意襲擊,那女人仍然驚駭不已。
5VERB (因行爲粗魯或不道德而)使不快,使氣憤,使厭惡,使反感 If someone or something shocks you, it upsets or offends you because you think it is rude or morally wrong. (因行爲粗魯或不道德而)使不快,使氣憤,使厭惡,使反感
You can't shock me. [VERB noun]
我不會被你激怒的。
They were easily shocked in those days. [beVERB-ed]
在那個年代,他們動不動就對一些事情看不順眼。
We were always trying to be creative and to shock. [VERB]
7N-COUNT [usually with supplement](對經濟、傳統、生活方式的)沖擊,撞擊 A shock is something sudden and unexpected that threatens the economy, traditions, or way of life of a group of people. (對經濟、傳統、生活方式的)沖擊,撞擊 [journalism]
This is the latest in a series of shocks to the Scandinavian banking system.
這是一系列對斯堪的納維亞銀行系統的沖擊中最近的一次。
...the economic pain of two oil shocks.
兩次原油沖擊下的經濟蕭條
8N-VAR 沖擊力 A shock is the force of something suddenly hitting or pulling something else. 沖擊力