frighten vt.使吃驚；驚嚇
[教材原句]The eagle suddenly flew in the air and frightened me.
那隻鷹突然飛向空中，使我受到了驚嚇。
(1)fright n． 恐懼，害怕
frightening adj. 令人恐懼的，可怕的
frightened adj. 害怕的，受到驚嚇的
(2)frighten sb.into/out of doing sth.
嚇得某人做/不做某事
frighten sb.to death 把某人嚇得要死
①Graphs can seem frightening，but reading a graph is a lot like reading a story.(2015年浙江高考)
圖表看起來很嚇人，但讀一個圖表，就像讀了一個故事。
②The frightened man sounded as if he was dying of fright．(frighten)
這個受到驚嚇的人聽起來好像快要嚇死了。
③News of the robberies frightened many people into fitting new locks to their doors.
搶劫的消息嚇得許多人裝上了新門鎖。
[鏈接寫作] 句式升級
She was frightened by the frightening scene.She got so nervous that she trembled from head to foot.
→Frightened by the frightening scene，she got so nervous that she trembled from head to foot.(過去分詞短語作狀語)