mass noun
1- sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour恐慌; 惊慌; 慌乱：
she hit him in panic
惊恐之中她打了他
in sing. he ran to the library in a blind panic.他惊慌失措地跑到图书馆。
1.1
- widespread financial or commercial apprehension provoking hasty action（金融或商业方面的）恐慌; 经济恐慌：
he caused an economic panic by his sudden resignation
他的突然辞职引起了一阵经济恐慌
as modifier panic selling.恐慌抛售。
1.2
- informal frenzied hurry to do something〈非正式〉极度匆忙; 慌乱。
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panicked, panicking
no obj. be affected by panic感到恐慌; 惊慌失措：the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit.
人群慌乱起来, 涌向了出口。
1.1
- with obj. cause to feel panic使恐慌：
talk of love panicked her.
谈到爱情使她惶恐不安。
1.2
- with obj.
panic someone into
drive or force someone through panic into (hasty or rash action)使（某人）慌张地采取（草率行动）： we are not going to be panicked into a decision.
我们不会被吓得慌慌张张地做决定。
短语
panic stations
- Brit. informal a state of alarm or emergency〈英, 非正式〉紧张状态：
many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of popular unrest.
许多相当理智的人由于普遍的不安情绪也处于紧张状态。
派生词
panicky
adjective词源
early 17th cent.: from French panique, from modern Latin panicus, from Greek panikos, from the name of the god PAN, noted for causing terror, to whom woodland noises were attributed.
(亦作panic grass)
mass noun
1- any of a number of cereal and fodder grasses related to millet粟, 稷, 糜子。
1.1
- Panicum and related genera, family Gramineae.黍属及相关属, 禾本科。
词源
late Middle English: from Latin panicum, from panus 'ear of millet' （literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'）, based on Greek pēnos 'web', pēnion 'bobbin'.