faze

使人害怕、犹豫或不知所措；通常用于说明某人并没有因此受到影响。

💡 记忆钩子

想象有人突然受到惊吓，脚步一顿、心里一乱；如果他没有被这一幕吓住或扰乱，就是没有被 faze。这个核心画面可以从“受到惊扰”延伸到“面对困难仍镇定、不退缩”。

📝 学习建议

优先记住否定用法“没有被 faze”，它常表示“没有被吓住、没有慌乱或没有受到影响”。
不要把 faze 和表示“阶段”的 phase 混淆；两者意义和用法都不同。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 使惊慌或退缩

📖 指某件事使人害怕、犹豫或心神不定；最常见的是说某人没有被困难、压力或意外场面吓住，仍然保持镇定。

💡 常见结构是“not faze + 人 + even when...”或“be unfazed by + 事情”，用来说明某人面对某事仍不慌乱。它多用于非正式语境，主语通常是令人紧张或意外的事情，宾语是受到影响的人。学习时应把否定形式整体记忆，不要只把 faze 当作一般的“影响”来使用。

informal transitive

The difficult interview questions did not faze her.

那些棘手的面试问题没有让她慌乱。

Nothing seems to faze him when he is speaking in public.

他在公开讲话时似乎什么都不会让他慌张。

fazes present,singular,third-person fazing participle,present fazed participle,past fazed past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

disturb the composure of

同义词集: faze unnerve enervate unsettle

上位: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset

🌳 词源

源自中古英语中表示“驱赶、使害怕”的词，后来发展出“使人受惊或不知所措”的含义。

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

🔄 变式

fazed past fazes present fazing present

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