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'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。
• 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。
• 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'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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• After reading some of the reviews on here I was actually dreading my stay at this hotel but I found the rooms ( 3) we had well above what I expected.
  度过这里酒店评价之后我真的很担心我住这家酒店会不会让我很不舒服，但是进到我订到的房间之后我发觉完整超乎我的设想。
• All morning I was dreading lunch, fearing his bizarre glares.
  整个早上我都在惧怕着午餐，害怕他异乎寻常的怒视。
• 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。