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

• I must confess that a small part of me has been dreading the vacation a bit.
  我必须承认，我有一点恐惧休假。
• 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。
• Let your manager know that you're looking forward to your evaluation, not dreading it.
  让你的经理知道你对评估的期许，不要害怕它。
• Rachel: Oh, like I wasn't dreading tomorrow enough, having to give it back to him.
  明天就要还他戒指，我似乎还不够担心。
• To this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy.
  关于这一点，他一直很谨慎，唯恐把我惹急了。你一定要说明白我若放弃这个策略的危险性，而且提醒他我的暴躁脾气，只要一闹起来，就会发狂的。
• No more dreading facing him or her.
  再也不害怕面对他/她。
• Pauline spent three wretched hours at the cinema dreading the moment when she must go home and face her husband again.
  保琳在电影院呆了三个小时，她不愿意回家再面对她的丈夫。
• I am eager to get away from work but I am dreading what will happen next.
  我是热切得离开工作但我畏惧我下一步。
• 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。
• And how do I stop my wife from divorcing me, as she says she is dreading the whole event?
  另外，我怎么才能阻止我妻子和我离婚呢？因为她说她对整件事感到惴惴不安。