两星【句子】I am petrified to do this with Mitchell. 【Modern Family-S2E1】【发音】[aɪ] [æm] ['petrɪfaɪd] [tʊ] [du:] [ðɪs] [wɪð] [mɪtʃəl]【发音技巧】petrified to完全失去爆破；【翻译】要和Mitchell一起做这件事，我能吓死。【适用场合】今天说到petrified这个单词，我的第一反应就是哈利波特里面的石化咒语。不知道有多少小伙伴是哈迷。因为petrify这个单词本意就是把……石化；使……僵硬；petrify sb. 吓坏某个人eg: I think you petrified poor Jeremy - he never said a word the whole time you were here.我觉得你把可怜的Jeremy吓坏了，你在这的时候，他一个字都没说。而petrified 可以用来表示：变成石头的；目瞪口呆的，吓呆的；extremely frightened 这样的意思经常用来搭配介词of be petrified of sth. eg: I'm petrified of snakes.我超害怕蛇的。eg: She's petrified of being on her own in the house at night.她很害怕晚上一个人待在那个房子里。eg: I stood petrified as the most enormous dog I've ever seen came bounding up to me.当那只我这辈子见过的最大的狗扑向我的时候，我站在那，吓傻了。之前有关吓死我了我们在【英语口语每日养成】当中讲过。Friends S1E1 Rachel 说的：I got really freaked out.感兴趣的同学可以点击这期节目的超链接复习。特别口语的环境中说：sb. is petrified还可以指这个人喝多了，酒精中毒了。eg: She’s not drunk. She’s petrified.她不是喝多，而是已经酒精中毒了。Every home-improvement project that we’ve undertaken has been a near-death experience.home-improvement project家装工程每次家里改造，都好想死。这里的a near-death experience没错，就是你们理解的字面意思。将要死的时候的一种感受。所以Cameron的幽默你get到了么？【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】She was petrified that the police would burst in at any moment.
