dread
dread 英 [dred] 美 [drɛd]
n. 恐惧；可怕的人（或物） v. 惧怕
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- The noun dread describes the fear of something bad happening, like the dread you feel when walking alone on a deserted street in the dark.
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- n. 恐惧；可怕的人（或物）
- v. 惧怕
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1. This was the moment he had been dreading.
这是他一直最担心的时刻。
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2. I dread being sick.
我特别害怕生病。
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3. She dreads her husband finding out.
她生怕丈夫察觉出来。
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4. I both hoped and dreaded that he would come.
我既希望又害怕他来。
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5. The prospect of growing old fills me with dread.
想到人会一天天老下去便使我充满恐惧。
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6. She has an irrational dread of hospitals.
她莫名其妙地害怕医院。
- dread (v.) late 12c., a shortening of Old English adrædan, contraction of ondrædan "counsel or advise against," also "to dread, fear, be afraid," from on- "against" + rædan "to advise" (from PIE root *re- "to reason, count"). Cognate of Old Saxon andradon, Old High German intraten. Related: Dreaded; dreading. As a noun from 12c.
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