frets

英 [frets]

美 [frets]

v.  苦恼; 烦躁; 焦虑不安
n.  (吉他等指板上定音的)品; (从海上飘来的)雾气，薄雾，雾
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 苦恼;烦恼;发愁
  If youfretabout something, you worry about it.
  1. I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else's problems...
     我一刻不闲地工作，总是为别人的事操心。
  2. But congressional staffers fret that the project will eventually cost billions more...
     但是国会工作人员担心这项计划最终会多耗资数十亿元。
  3. Don't fret, Mary. This is all some crazy mistake.
     不要发愁，玛丽。这只是个有些荒唐的错误。
• (吉他等弦乐器琴颈处的)品
  Thefretson a musical instrument such as a guitar are the raised lines across its neck.

双语例句

• He frets that his employees would lose their sense of purpose, the sense that their work and the decisions they make matter.
  他担心自己的员工会失去目标感，即他们的工作和决策事关重大。
• He spends little time at the magazine and frets in some of his classes.
  他很少到杂志社去了，有时听听课也会焦躁起来。
• He frets over the kudzu that is devouring abandoned buildings.
  他为占据了废弃建筑的野葛而烦恼不已。
• It frets perpetually, sometimes hysterically, about threats to its economic and military supremacy.
  它始终在为其经济和军事霸权所面临的威胁烦恼，有时甚至有些歇斯底里。
• Baby frets in hot weather.
  天热时，婴儿烦躁。
• The Atlantic frets that the Murdoch model will sacrifice "responsible, serious journalism" and damage public life in the process.
  《大西洋月刊》担忧，默多克模式将牺牲负责的、严肃的新闻业，并在这一过程中损害公众生活。
• She frets away all the time when he is not at home.
  他不在家时她总在烦恼中过日子。
• She explains that while her fellow students are chiefly concerned with getting a job or buying an apartment, she frets over how she can excel in her work despite having little experience of the world.
  她解释道，身边的同伴们都关心求职和买房问题，而她所烦恼的则是，如何在社会经验有限的基础上，在写作之路上再创佳绩。
• Sorrow frets away our courage.
  忧伤耗掉了我们的勇气。
• But it frets about how much those dollars will be worth should America succumb to inflation or depreciation.
  但是，如果美国败给了通胀或者贬值，那中国就要为这些美元能值多少而头疼了。