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

• 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。
• 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。
• The boy dreads his father.
  这个孩子畏惧他的父亲。
• The child dreads going to bed in the dark.
  这孩子不敢在黑暗中去睡觉。
• It's simple to picture: Someone has to do perform a task, but dreads the long, complicated process.
  不难想象：当某个人必须去完成一项工作，但又惧怕那繁琐、冗长的过程。
• Lampard dreads driving to his home ground on match days.
  兰帕德都不敢在比赛日自己开车去主场。
• A man usually dies of the disease he dreads most.
  人往往死于他最害怕的疾。
• However, she dreads Sunday evenings.
  不过，她仍然很害怕周日晚上。
• 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。
• Liu dreads a traditional life path back in China, but he admits that the dilemma of returning home or applying for British citizenship is looming.
  尽管刘潇对中国传统的生活模式心生恐惧，但他仍然纠结在回国还是移民的问题上。