petrify

['petrifai]

vt. 使石化, 使发呆
vi. 石化

词形变化：

动词过去式: petrified | 动词过去分词: petrified | 动词现在分词: petrifying | 动词第三人称单数: petrifies |

vt.

1. 【地】使石化

2. 使僵化, 使丧失活力

3. 使惊呆, 把……吓呆

The bird was petrified as the snake came near.

当蛇爬近时, 鸟儿惊呆了。

vi.

1. 【地】石化

2. 僵化, 丧失活力

3. 惊呆; 吓呆

petrify

过去式：petrified

过去分词：petrified

现在进行时：petrifying

词形变化：

动词过去式: petrified | 动词过去分词: petrified | 动词现在分词: petrifying | 动词第三人称单数: petrifies |

词义辨析：

同义:

vt.使吓呆

terrify

horrify

shock

appall

frighten

stun

harden

become stone

petrify['petrifai]vt.1.■[常用被动语态]使石化；使化为石：The Petrified Forest National Park is located in Arizona of U.S.A.石化森林国家公园位于美国亚利桑那州。2.■使僵化；使坚硬；使消失活力，使麻木：Redundant slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking.口号过多容易使人思想僵化。3.■(因恐惧、惊慌等而)发呆：She was petrified with terror.她被吓得目瞪口呆。vi.1.■变僵硬；石化：The cement petrified after many years' erosion.经过多年的侵蚀，水泥石化了。2.■僵化；丧失活力：Principles and rules have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent.由于层层先例的累积使原则和章程变得僵化呆板了。3.■吓呆；变呆；惊呆：to petrify with grief悲痛欲绝变形vt.petrifiedpetrifying

1. make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move or think
   使惊呆，把…吓呆
   his icy controlled quietness petrified her.
   他克制住自己，那种冰冷的沉默把她吓呆了。
   [as adj. petrified]the petrified child clung to the side of her mother.
   吓呆的孩子紧紧地靠着母亲。
   
2. change (organic matter) into a stonyconcretion by encrusting or replacing its original substance with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit
   使变成石头，使石化
   ■[no obj.](of organic matter) become converted into stone or a stony substance in such a way
   变成石头，石化
   ■(figurative)deprive or become deprived of vitality or the capacity for change
   (喻)（使）僵化；（使）丧失活力
   [withobj.]death merely petrifies things for those who go on living.
   对活下去的人而言，死亡只是使事物丧失活力。
   [noobj.]the inner life of the old system petrified.
   旧制度的内在生命僵化了。
   

1. late Middle English: from French pétrifier, from medieval Latin petrificare, from Latin petra 'rock', from Greek
   

petrify

动词 petrify:

cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned

change into stone

同义词：lapidify

make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

同义词：rigidify, ossify

petrify

■petrify vt.

使发呆；

■petrify v.

使吓呆；

■To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.

使成矿使转化为矿物质；使石化

■Redundant slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking.

口号过多容易使人思想僵化。

■There are selves that petrify you when you think about them and selves that you could die of a heart attack looking at.

存在吓呆自己的自我，当你们考虑它们时候，而你们会死于心脏惊吓的自我就看着。

■People are apt to petrify, even at a University, if they follow the same paths too persistently

当有些人钻进牛角尖的时候，即使是在大学学府里，他们也会变得冥顽不化的。

■to petrify with grief

悲痛欲绝

■We may not suffer it to petrify at the cost of its animating principle.

我们可能无法承受有生气的原则之下所产生的惊吓?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

■we fall in love, we lose and once we fall suddenly we petrify.

我们恋爱；我们失意；然后迅速，一旦倒下就像一块僵石。

■And not to mention they`re dead scared that Harry will Petrify them if they fly anywhere near him.

更不用说他们害怕死人,如果他们飞得靠近哈利,哈利就会把他们石化掉.

■A mutation of a gateway decoration. Uses Petrify attacks.

由凯旋门上的装饰品变化而来。使用可造成石化的攻击。

■Resource-dependent industrial clusters usually experiences four growing stages: the start-up stage, the growth stage, the conversion stage and the petrify stage during its life cycle.

资源依赖型产业集群发展一般要经历起步期、成长期、转型期和蜕变期四个阶段。