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

• 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。
• No more dreading facing him or her.
  再也不害怕面对他/她。
• It felt wrong to be dreading work at such a young age.
  年纪轻轻就对工作感到厌烦，实在太不应该。
• I'm dreading having to ring her because I know she's going to be furious with me.
  我很怕要给她打电话，因为我知道她一定会对我极其愤怒的。
• She went home for a family get-together which she'd been dreading.
  她回家去和家人团聚，尽管她直都不愿去。
• 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。
• I've been dreading this moment for six years.
  这个时刻我等了六年了。
• I'm absolutely dreading making the after-dinner speech& I don't know what possessed me to agree to it!
  我非常不愿作宴会后发言&不知道怎么鬼使神差地我竟答应了！
• I've never been a clock-watcher, but this place is turning me into one: I can't wait to get out of here at the end of the day, and spend every Sunday dreading Monday.
  原来的我并不是那种盯着表盼下班的人，但在这里我却成了这样。一到下班时间我就迫不及待地逃离办公室。
• Now comes the dreaded follow-up, Cave added, not looking as though he was dreading it at all.
  现在是让人担心的续作，凯夫补充，不过他看上去可一点不担心。