dreads

英 [dredz]

美 [dredz]

v.  非常害怕; 极为担心
n.  恐惧; 令人惧怕的事物
dread的第三人称单数和复数

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

• James dreads failure and is consumed by the fear that his kid brother might beat him at his chosen endeavour.
  詹姆士害怕失败，因为担心他小弟想尽一切办法打败他而心力交瘁。
• It's the bedtime ritual every parent dreads-being asked to read the same book for the umpteenth time.
  这是让每个父母都头疼的睡前惯例&被孩子央求把同一本书念上第N次。
• It's common to resolve to lose weight, but any sane person dreads a diet's dulling effect on the brain.
  这是决心减肥的人普遍都会忧虑的问题&任何从事脑力劳动的人都害怕节食会使大脑由于供能不足而变得迟钝。
• For anybody who dreads the emergence of an undifferentiated world, the sights, sounds and smells of the criminal underworld are still refreshingly varied.
  任何人都害怕世界突然变得不同。表层之下的犯罪依然很有活力的活跃着。
• A burned child dreads the fire.
  一次被火烧，见火就害怕。
• The boy dreads his father.
  这个孩子畏惧他的父亲。
• The burnt child dreads the fire, so he's not likely to make the same mistake again.
  被火烫过的孩子怕见火，看来他不会再犯同样的错误了。
• It is not tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
  当男人想到结婚的时候，他害怕的并不是把自己跟一个女人绑在一起，而是与其余的女人隔离开来。
• When Sarah Lynn Brown is interviewing job candidates, she dreads hearing them say, "I want to use my skills and grow and learn."
  萨拉•林恩•布朗在面试求职者的时候，最怕听到他们说：“我希望利用我的能力，在这里得到成长和学习。”
• The average programmer dreads the coming of the bird, for he fears its message.
  中级程序员担心这只鸟的到来，因为害怕它带来的消息。