v.(动词)

1. 使气馁，使泄气，使失去信心
2. 使胆怯，使害怕，使畏缩，恐吓，威吓，吓倒，威胁
3. 难倒

v.(动词)

1. vt. 使胆怯；使气馁；使失去信心 make sb feel nervous and less confident of doing sth

Verb:

1. cause to lose courage;

   "dashed by the refusal"
   

1.使胆怯;使气馁
If somethingdaunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.

e.g. ...a gruelling journey that would have daunted a woman half her age...
比她年轻一半的女子都会胆怯的累人旅程
e.g. I'm somewhat daunted by the size of the task.
我有点儿被这项任务的规模吓着了。

daunted
It is hard to pick up such a book and not to feel a little daunted.
捧起这样一本书难免会让人有些畏惧情绪。

1. daunt什么意思

1. 恐吓：五个阿姨(vaunt)在一起吹牛,还打了不会飞的阿姨,恐吓(daunt)她,阿姨在闲逛(saunter) 时到处乱看,有人趁其不备,踢阿姨,嘲弄(taunt)她,把她踢死了,后来在一个月黑风高的夜里,有人看到阿姨一个人在家里走来走去,那是阿姨常去的地方,

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2. 威吓：dauernarkose 持续麻醉法持续麻醉法 |daunt 威吓 | dawn insomnia 黎明失眠症黎明失眠症

3. 恐吓,威胁：jaunt 短途旅行 |daunt 恐吓,威胁 | saunter 闲逛,四处逛

Danger didn daunt the hero.

危险并没有吓住那英雄。

I was rather daunted by the thought of addressing such an audience.

我一想到要对这样的听众讲话，就有些胆小。

No difficulties in the world can daunt us.

世界上任何困难都吓不倒我们。

Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.

再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。

Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.

再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们.

The difficulty did not daunt him.

那种困难吓不倒他.

Unarmed policemen did not daunt him, neither did the cars in the streets.

不要说是个赤手空拳的巡警, 就是那满街横行的汽车,他也不怕.

Once we master it, no material difficulty can daunt us.

我们学会了这一条, 我们就对一切物质困难都不怕了.

Any affairs in the world can daunt the outstanding Chinese people.

天下事难不倒锐意进取的中国人民.

No threat can daunt us.

什么威胁也吓不倒我们.

Yhough the prospect of a north wall may daunt new gardeners, it presents few problems.

尽管一堵北面的墙其设计前景可能让园艺新手们气馁, 但它对攀援植物来说却没什么问题.

Their guide deserted them, but, nothing daunt, they press on into the jungle.

向导离他们而去, 但是他们毫不气馁, 仍向森林进发.

Only heroes can quell tigers and leopards. And wild bears never daunt the brave.

独有英雄驱虎豹, 更无豪杰怕熊罴.

用作及物动词S+ ～+n./pron.

1. Danger did not daunt the hero.
   危险并没有吓倒这位英雄。
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2. He was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary.
   词典上最长的词也难不倒他。
3. She was not at all daunted by the size of the problem.
   她一点也不为问题的严重性所吓倒。
4. He was daunted by the high quality of work they expected.
   他被他们对工作的高品质的要求吓倒了。

其他

1. She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead.
   她是一个勇敢的女人，但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。
2. It is a daunting prospect for a party so recently formed.
   对一个新近成立的政党来说，这一前景令人极其气馁。
3. She was a fine though somewhat daunting director.
   她是个很好的主管，虽说有点令人望而生畏。
4. She has the daunting task of cooking for 20 people every day.
   她每天得做20个人的饭，这是一项可怕的任务。
5. Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.
   开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。

nothing daunted

无所畏惧；毫不气馁confident about sth difficult you have to do

• I had felt a little daunted by the extreme modishness of her clothes and by her poise.

  出自：W. Plomer

• Such barriers to religion, which daunt those not brought up to them.

  出自：R. Macaulay

v.(动词)

daunt, appal, dismay, horrify

这组词的共同意思是“引起惊恐、忧郁或使丧失勇气”。其区别在于:dismay指因前景令人沮丧或对某事束手无策,而失去继续干某事的力量; appal指足以把人吓瘫的恐惧,也指遇到无法改变的、使人惊愕的事或物所表现出的无能为力; daunt强调试图干大胆的事,但被威胁或压制,因而停止或退却; 而horrify指见到令人毛骨悚然的东西时的一种恐惧和发抖的反应,也可指失去尊严所引起的暂时的厌恶感。