scare off

1. PHRASAL VERB 吓跑
   If you scare off or scare away a person or animal, you frighten them so that they go away.
   1. ...an alarm to scare off an attacker.
      用来吓跑袭击者的警报器
   2. ...the problem of scaring birds away from airport runways.
      把鸟轰离机场跑道的难题
2. PHRASAL VERB 吓退;把…吓跑
   If you scare someone off, you accidentally make them unwilling to become involved with you.
   1. I don't think that revealing your past to your boyfriend scared him off...
      我并不认为是因为你把自己的过去向男朋友坦白才把他吓跑的。
   2. The new Democratic Party is not likely to scare off voters.
      新成立的民主党不太可能吓跑选民。

1. The new Democratic Party is not likely to scare off voters.
   新成立的民主党不太可能吓跑选民。
2. The threat of the government taking stakes would scare off some private investors.
   政府介入行为所引发的恐慌也许会吓跑部分私人投资者。
3. Entrepeneurs are afraid of doing it. They're worried they're going to scare off future investors.
   创业者们害怕这么做，可能会吓跑未来的投资者。
4. Don't get closer, or you will scare off those cute birds.
   不要再靠近了，不然你会把那些可爱的鸟给吓跑。
5. Vitamin B does not scare off mosquitoes.
   维他命B并不能吓走蚊子。
6. The uncertainties over supplies into Crimea as well as political instability will scare off tourists, 70% of whom were from Ukraine last year.
   水电气等民生物资供应的不确定性以及政局的不稳定将吓跑游客，去年赴克里米亚旅游的游客有70%来自乌克兰。
7. On Monday, the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with three other business groups, said protests would damage the economy and scare off tourists.
   周一，香港总商会（HKGCC）与其他三家商业团体表示，抗议将破坏经济并吓跑游客。
8. Coming across as being needy is a quick way to scare off potential friends.
   以一个急切的方式去结识对方会很快地把潜在的朋友给吓跑。
9. I figured somebody was trying to scare off the workers.
   我想是有人想把这些工人吓走。
10. Michael Hart, head of research for North China at Jones land LaSalle, says the new measures are not designed to scare off foreign investment, but to give the government more information about who is investing where.
    仲量联行北中华区研究主管何迈克（michaelhart）表示，新政的意图并非要吓跑外国投资，而是让政府得到更多有关谁在投资、在哪儿投资的信息。
11. Bushwhacking is also a term for using a machete to hack through thick jungle grass or undergrowth, which is used more to scare off animals near you than to carve a path.
    布伊刀也是一把用在草丛或灌木丛里砍草用的大砍刀，可用来吓跑接近你的动物并开拓一条小径。
12. You want to scare off my staffs?
    你想吓死我的伙计吗？
13. Yet east London also needs better schools; the current crop scare off some of the young, ambitious families that the area needs, while those who choose to stay deserve better.
    伦敦东区也需要更好的学校。现状已经吓跑了一些年轻有为的家庭&这个地区需要这样的家庭，而那些留下来的家庭也应得更好的学校。
14. Light a fire to scare off the wolves.
    点起火来把狼吓跑。
15. The boys made enough noise to scare off any animals.
    男孩子们大叫大嚷，什么野兽都给吓跑了。
16. Local fishermen raced out in their boats to save him, beating drums to scare off any fish that might eat his body and dropping rice into the water to lure away the fish.
    当地的渔夫划着船去救他，敲着鼓吓跑吃他尸体的鱼，并且撒米到河中将鱼诱走。
17. But if neither submits and roars don't scare off the opposition, let battle commence!
    但如果双方都不退却，吼叫也吓不走对方，那就让战争开打吧！
18. But his generous offer was high enough to scare off potential private-equity bidders.
    但是他慷慨的出价高的足以吓退那些潜在的私募股权投资家们。
19. The decoy camera can be fixed to the wall to scare off burglars.
    假相机可以固定在墙上吓走夜间行窃的窃贼。
20. The first choice is a simple alarm to scare off potential burglars and perhaps alert neighbors.
    第一份是安装最基本的警报系统建议，用途是当警钟触发后可将贼人吓退及警醒邻居。
21. Baby tiger at this stage will instinctively bare its teeth, tighten its nose and bark to scare off invaders.
    此时的小虎只会本能地紧鼻龇牙，面露凶相，并以尖声的吼叫吓退来犯者。
22. The ruling could scare off other foreign investors by sending a message to activist funds that companies can discriminate against unwelcome shareholders.
    此项裁决可能会吓跑其他外国投资者，因为它向激进的基金传递了这样一个信号：公司可能会区别对待不受欢迎的股东。
23. He was the only one who could put the shadows away and scare off the wardrobe monster.
    他是唯一能抹去阴影，并吓走衣柜里怪物的人。
24. Mr vyugin said the best policy would be to move to a "dirty float" in which the central bank could intervene without warning so as to scare off speculators and then the currency would stabilise.
    丘金表示，最佳的政策应该是转向“肮脏浮动汇率制度”（dirtyfloat），这样央行就可以在不预先通告的情况下进行干预，以便吓跑投机者这样卢布汇率就将趋于稳定。
25. If you can't handle the application, you are not going to get through the course, which is very intense. We do want to scare off people who are not right for the programme.
    如果你对付不了申请表，就上不好课，而课程是很紧张的。我们确实想把不适于这门课的人吓走。
26. Sure, you may go too far in your pursuit of pleasure and scare off an overly sensitive individual, but it's better to play hard than to play it safe and miss out on all of the fun.
    当然，你可能会在追求玩乐的路上走的太远，而你过度敏感的性格使你感到害怕了。但是疯狂地去玩可你比保守娱乐要好得多，否则你会失去很多乐趣的。
27. Fears of insider trading and weak corporate governance, however, could scare off foreign bargain hunters.
    然而，内幕交易和薄弱的公司治理引发的担忧，可能会令打算买便宜货的外国投资者望而却步。
28. The recall isn't enough to scare off Charles Mettler, who ordered an eggs Benedict on Tuesday when he stopped by Drake Diner's in Des Moines, Iowa.
    召回不足使查尔斯梅特勒被吓倒，当他停留在衣阿华得梅因的德克士餐馆时，他在星期二点了火腿蛋松饼。
29. This is a fake video camera which you fix to your wall to scare off burglars.
    这是一个假摄像机，你放在墙上吓跑贼的。

verb

1. cause to lose courage
   1. dashed by the refusal

   Synonym:    dauntdashpallfrighten offscare awayfrighten awayscare