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

• 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。
• This was the moment I'd been dreading for the past six months.
  我魂牵梦绕了六个多月的时刻终于来了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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'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！
• 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。
• So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided;
  所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导；
• 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。