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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He's dreading his driving test-he's sure he's going to fail.
  他害怕驾驶测试一他想他一定通不过。
• I've been dreading this moment for six years.
  这个时刻我等了六年了。
• I was dreading the next day because I knew we wouldn't have any macaroni at home.
  我非常担心第二天的事，因为我很清楚家里不会有通心粉。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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 must confess that a small part of me has been dreading the vacation a bit.
  我必须承认，我有一点恐惧休假。