terrifying和frightening的区别

意思不同：terrifying的意思有可怕的；令人害怕的；令人恐惧的；恐怖的；吓人的,而frightening则表示引起恐惧的；使惊恐的；骇人的；“frighten”的现在分词；令人恐惧的；可怕的；令人害怕的。

2、词性不同：terrifying有1种词性，即adj.(形容词)的时候表示可怕的的意思 而frightening有2种词性，即adj.(形容词)的时候表示引起恐惧的的意思 v.(动词)的时候表示“frighten”的现在分词的意思 。。

总结：

terrifying和frightening都是形容词，表示“可怕的”的意思。但是terrifying更强调“极其可怕”，比frightening更加强烈，更能表达出恐惧的感觉。

具体用法例句区分

terrifying的用法例句如下：

1、"I just spent a week with him, " Alissa said. "It was really terrifying because I just found that out. "───艾丽萨说：“我就和他呆了一周。太吓人了我才知道他是什麽人。”

2、A few lines, more terrifying than anything I read before, as he apologized to someone for killing the child.───只有短短几行字，却是我读到过的最可怕的东西，他在信中为自己将孩子杀掉而向某人道歉。

3、Lyn Gallacher: The terrifying thing about these particular bombings was that they appeared to have no meaning.───林恩？加拉赫：这些特别的爆炸案，它们让人恐怖，是因为它们其实似乎并无目的。

4、As terrifying as that day was, we immediately began to hear stories of the courage and compassion of our fellow citizens.───那天是如此可怕，但我们立即开始听到有关我们同胞勇气和同情之举的故事。

5、It would be a terrifying animal if it wasn't the size of a banana.───如果不是体型只有香蕉那么大，这回事很吓人的动物。

6、With none of today's military censorship, it allows soldiers like Robert Stiles to relay the terrifying realities of life on the front line.───由于当时还没有如今的军队审查制度，这就让诸如罗伯特·斯泰尔斯的士兵们得以将前线生活的恐怖现实传播出去。

frightening的用法例句如下：

1、surprise, and I jumped to my feet. A frightening shape had come out of the fog. It was a dog, a.───我则跳了起来。一个可怕的幽灵窜出了浓雾，那是一只猎犬。

2、Offer yourself compassion as you see that heading off into unknown territory is frightening.───同情自己吧--因为你已经知道向未知领域前进是一件令人恐惧的事情。

3、Description: The Smurf attack is a very frightening form of Denial of service attack due to its amplification effects.───描述：Smurf攻击是拒绝服务攻击的一种非常可怕的形式，因为它具有放大效应。

4、Official advice is often frightening.───官方的建议通常很吓人。

5、It was the height of the cold war, a frightening age of fallout shelters and "duck-and-cover" drills.───那是在冷战的背景下，一个笼罩原子弹烟尘和“闪避-掩护”军事训练的令人恐惧的年代。

6、Josh Green, chief executive of Panjiva, said the numbers "paint a frightening picture of the state of the world's suppliers" .───Panjiva首席执行官乔什•格林（JoshGreen）表示，这些数字“描绘了一幅可怕的全球供应商状况景象”。