dreading

英 [ˈdredɪŋ]

美 [ˈdredɪŋ]

v.  非常害怕; 极为担心
dread的现在分词

现在分词：dreading　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 非常担心;极为害怕
  If youdreadsomething which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting.
  1. I'm dreading Christmas this year...
     今年我非常害怕过圣诞节。
  2. I dreaded coming back, to be honest...
     说实话,我生怕回来。
  3. I suffer badly from cold sores and dread them appearing on my wedding day...
     我的唇疱疹很严重，我真担心它会在我的婚礼上发作。
  4. I'd been dreading that the birth would take a long time.
     我一直十分担心分娩会花很长时间。
• N-UNCOUNT 忧虑;恐惧
  Dreadis a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen.
  1. She thought with dread of the cold winters to come.
     她害怕即将来临的寒冷冬季。
• ADJ 可怕的;令人畏惧的
  Dreadmeans terrible and greatly feared.
  1. ...a more effective national policy to combat this dread disease.
     对抗这可怕疾病的更有效的国家政策
• ADJ 恼火的;生气的;不想要的
  You can usedreadto describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying or undesirable.
  1. ...the dread phrase 'politically correct'.
     令人不快的短语“政治上正确”
• See also:dreaded
• PHRASE 不敢想
  If you say that youdread to thinkwhat might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  1. I dread to think what will happen in the case of a major emergency...
     我不敢想在重大紧急情况下会发生什么。
  2. I dread to think what Hollywood is planning to do with this interesting little story.
     我不敢想好莱坞打算如何处理这个有趣的小故事。

双语例句

• So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided;
  所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导；
• I was dreading the next day because I knew we wouldn't have any macaroni at home.
  我非常担心第二天的事，因为我很清楚家里不会有通心粉。
• He's dreading his driving test-he's sure he's going to fail.
  他害怕驾驶测试一他想他一定通不过。
• Fig I'm dreading moving to another country, it makes me ill just to think about it.
  我害怕搬到其他国家去，只是想想也会使我不舒服。
• The moment I had been dreading had arrived.
  使我一直忐忑不安的时刻已经来到。
• I had been dreading, but half-expecting, this call for quite some time.
  有很长一段时间，对于这个电话我一直提心吊胆，但也在意料之中。
• Each morning, I had been waking up and dreading going to work-the company I work for has a very stressful environment, and being there takes a lot out of me.
  以前的每天早上，我醒来后都对一天的工作充满恐惧&我在那家公司工作压力很大。
• If you examine why you're dreading a particular conversation, you might be able to tackle it in a different way, or re-frame the issue in a way that's less upsetting.
  如果你检视了为何害怕某个特点的对话，你也许能采取不同的方式来应对，或可以用一个不愉快度较低的方式重构问题。
• I've been dreading this moment for six years.
  这个时刻我等了六年了。
• Tuesday afternoon, one worker said she was dreading the commute home.
  星期二下午，一名工人说，想到回家的路途就令她忐忑不安。