shock /ʃɒk/ CET4 TEM4 ( shocking, shocked, shocks )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT If you have a shock, something suddenly happens which is unpleasant, upsetting, or very surprising. 震惊

  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.

  他从来没有从你兄弟的死所带来的震惊中恢复过来。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT Shock is a person's emotional and physical condition when something very frightening or upsetting has happened to them. (身心受到的) 惊吓

  例：

  The little boy was speechless with shock.

  这个小男孩被吓得说不出话来。

• 3. 

  N-UNCOUNT 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. 休克

  例：

  He was found beaten and in shock.

  他被发现遭到殴打，处于休克中。

• 4. 

  V-T If something shocks you, it makes you feel very upset, because it involves death or suffering and because you had not expected it. 使震惊

  例：

  After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me.

  在警察部门干了40年后，没有什么能令我非常震惊了。

• 5. 

  shocked ADJ 震惊的

  例：

  This was a nasty attack and the woman is still very shocked.

  这是一次严重的袭击，这个女人仍然感到非常震惊。

• 6. 

  V-T/V-I If someone or something shocks you, it upsets or offends you because you think it is vulgar or morally wrong. 使不快; 不快

  例：

  You can't shock me.

  你不会让我生气。

  例：

  They were easily shocked in those days.

  他们那时候容易被激怒。

  例：

  ...the desire to shock

  …发怒的欲望。

• 7. 

  shocked ADJ 生气的

  例：

  Don't look so shocked.

  别这么生气。

• 8. 

  N-VAR A shock is the force of something suddenly hitting or pulling something else. 冲击力

  例：

  Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.

  铁栅栏会弯曲并吸收冲击力。

• 9. 

  N-COUNT A shock is the same as an . 电击

• 10. 

  N a thick bushy mass, esp of hair (尤指头发)浓密厚重的一把

• 11. 

  → see also electric shock