Dread
[dred] or [drɛd]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
(v. i.) To be in dread, or great fear.
(n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
(n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
(n.) An object of terrified apprehension.
(n.) A person highly revered.
(n.) Fury; dreadfulness.
(n.) Doubt; as, out of dread.
(a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
(a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
校對:卢瑟
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Fear, apprehension.[2]. Awe.
a. [1]. Frightful, terrible, horrible, dreadful.[2]. Venerable, awful.
v. a. Fear greatly.
手打:奈杰尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension
ANT:Courage, confidence, welcome, assurance
手打:洛伊斯
解釋/意思:
n. fear: awe: the objects that excite fear.—adj. dreaded: inspiring great fear or awe.—v.t. to regard with terror: to regard with reverence.—adjs. Dread′able; Dread′ful (orig.) full of dread: producing great fear or awe: terrible.—adv. Dread′fully.—n. Dread′fulness.—adj. Dread′less free from dread: intrepid.—adv. Dread′lessly.—n. Dread′lessness.—adj. Dread′ly (Spens.) dreadful.—ns. Dread′naught Dread′nought one who dreads nothing—hence a garment of thick cloth defending against the weather: the cloth of which it is made.—Penny dreadful a cheap sensational serial or tale usually bloody in subject and vulgar in tone.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I almost dread to-morrow--so much depends on my discretion and self-control. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I trust the former, answered her father hopefully; but I dread the latter. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He is here,' said Louisa, with dread. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Or could Bertha--the dread alternative sprang on her suddenly--could Bertha, left to herself, have gone ashore to rejoin him? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I don't know what I thought, or what I dreaded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Yet I dreaded to witness the anguish which my resolve might excite in Idris. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- All he feared and dreaded was that the vile jargon should come to him by itself, in spite of all he could do to prevent it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Or the leader of a Free Company, answered the Templar, from dreading at the hands of a comrade and friend, the injustice he does to all mankind. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at last. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- On this occasion I went, dreading the worst, to his dwelling, to see if I could be of any service to those of his family who might have survived. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You _are_ afraid--your self-love dreads a blunder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm, which beats upon me from every side. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He dreads me alive as an enemy, and dead he fears my avengers. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She feels caught, hemmed in; she dreads her unexpected presence may annoy him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He grows so tired of that unceasing question sometimes, that he dreads to show us any thing at all. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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