panic
panic1
noun
panic stations
panicky
adjective
语源
panic2
(亦作 panic grass)
noun
noun
- [mass noun]sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour
恐慌；惊慌；慌乱
she hit him in panic.
惊恐之中她打了他。
[in sing.]he ran to the library in a blind panic.
他惊慌失措地跑向图书馆。
■widespread financial or commercial apprehension provoking hasty action
（金融方面的）恐慌；经济恐慌
he caused an economic panic by his sudden resignation.
他的突然辞职引起了一阵经济恐慌。
[as modifier]panic selling.
恐慌抛售。
■(informal)frenzied hurry to do something
(非正式)极度匆忙；慌乱
- [no obj.]be affected by panic
感到恐慌；惊慌失措
the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit.
人群慌乱起来，涌向了出口。
■[with obj.]cause to feel panic
使恐慌
talk of love panicked her.
关于爱情的谈话使她惶恐不安。
■[with obj.](panic someone into)drive or force someone through panic into (hasty or rash action)
使（某人）慌张地采取（草率行动）
we are not going to be panicked into a decision.
我们决不会被吓得慌慌张张地做决定。
panic stations
- (Brit. informal)a state of alarm or emergency
(英，非正式)紧张状态
many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of popular unrest.
许多相当理智的人由于普遍的不安情绪也处于紧张状态。
panicky
adjective
语源
- early 17th cent.: from French panique, from modern Latin panicus, from Greek panikos, from the name of the god Pan, noted for causing terror, to whom woodland noises were attributed
panic2
(亦作 panic grass)
noun
- [mass noun]any of a number of cereal and fodder grasses related to millet
粟，稷，糜子 - Panicum and related genera, family Gramineae
黍属及相关属，禾本科
- late Middle English: from Latin panicum, from panus 'ear of millet' (literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'), based on Greek pēnos 'web', pēnion 'bobbin'
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