These verbs all mean to frighten into submission, compliance, or acquiescence.

这些动词都表示通过吓唬使人屈服、顺从或默认。

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Once I got into the cab with a young lorry driver who careered along at 90mph to frighten other drivers, but I wasn't scared.

一次我坐进了一个年轻的货车司机的驾驶室，他以90英里的时速猛冲来吓唬其他司机，但是我并不害怕。

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Ali Baba told her that she need not frighten herself, for that certainly Cassim would not think it proper to come into the town till the night should be pretty far advanced.

阿里巴巴告诉她没必要吓唬自己，因为毫无疑问凯新在晚上可能没有找对回城的那条相当远的路。

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But if they are too crude they may frighten schools into a narrow, regimented focus on tests scores.

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The law was a pistol Congress pointed at its own head in order to frighten itself into cutting the deficit.

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Many suspect that Mr Sankoh is deliberately keeping up a terror campaign to frighten people into voting him into the presidency.

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