panic 有以下几层含义：1、本义是名词，指“一种突然的难以抗拒的恐惧”，例如：A wall collapsed and 39 people, were killedin the panic-stricken stampede. 一堵墙倒了，慌乱中有39人死于踩踏事故An earthquake hit the capital, causingpanic among the population. 首都发生了地震，引发民众恐慌。2、俚语中常用来表示“非常滑稽的人”。3、另外也常被转化为形容词，表示“恐慌的”、“惊慌失措的”，例如：a panic fear 莫明其妙的恐慌panic selling of securities 金融大恐慌导致的债券抛售4、还可以由形容词转化为使役动词，表示“使...恐慌”或“处于恐慌状态”，例如：The unexpected and sudden memory brieflypanicked her. 突然间莫名涌起的回忆让她心头一紧。Thecrowd paniced at the sound of the guns. 人们听到枪声感到惊慌。
两个单词同是形容词，都来自单词 panic （名词，动词） 恐慌，惊慌panicked 用于形容人或动物被事情招来恐慌，而 panicky 用于形容恐慌的状态这些单词的区别和不同用法可以从下面例句看到：The headlights caused the deer to panic and run straight into the path of the car.The deer was panicked into running straight for the headlights.The people became panicked by the tornado warning and started a run on water and food.She acted panicky at the interview and did not handle the interviewer's questions well.The chairman of the company is given to quick, panicky decisions that are bad for the business.We were at sea; the storm was coming; the waves were rising, and the situation was getting more panicky by the minute.
恐慌的常见释义是panic。panic作为名词表示为恐慌，惊慌、大恐慌，作为形容词表示为恐慌的、没有理由的，作为及物动词表示为使恐慌，作为不及物动词表示为十分惊慌，名词表(Panic)人名、(罗)帕尼克的意思，scare作为动词表示为（使）害怕、受惊吓、吓跑，作为名词表示为恐惧、惊吓、（社会上的）大恐慌，作为形容词表示为骇人的，panicky作为形容词表示为恐慌的、惊慌失措的，panic-stricken作为形容词表示为惊慌失措的、万分恐慌的。参考例句Her calm expression hid her inward panic，这句话可以解释为，她平静的外表掩盖了内心的恐慌，参考例句Many people were trampled in the panic that followed，这句话可以解释为，很多人在随后的恐慌中被踩伤，参考例句Panic on the stock market set off a wave of selling，这句话可以解释为，股市恐慌引发了一轮抛售潮。
4、例句：It is a mysterious, shifting, elusive thing, and it was that very ambiguity that so confounded andcompelled the attention of all who saw it in the past.
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