fear

fear

英[fɪə(r)]美[fɪr]

n.恐惧，担心，担忧，可能性；

v.害怕，担心，(替…)担心；

第三人称单数：fears;

过去式：feared;

过去分词：feared;

现在分词：fearing;

例句

I fear I will not fit into any future.我怕我会与未来的任何社会都格格不入。

I don't like the children playing in this room, for fear they knock the furniture about.我不喜欢孩子们在这间房子里玩, 因为怕他们把家具打坏了。

We should compose ourselves in the face of fear.我们在危险时要保持镇静。

He took a dictionary to hold down the test papers for fear that they might be blown away by the wind.他拿了本词典压住试卷, 以防被风吹走。

I fear the apples wouldn't go round.我怕苹果不够分配。

I can’t rationalize my absurd fear of insects.我怕昆虫,毫无道理,不能合理地解释。

He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。

Our roaring guns left the enemy trembling with fear.我们的隆隆炮声使敌人胆战心惊。

The newspaper reprinted the facts, without fear or favour.报纸公正地转载了事情的真相。

I fear the apples wouldn't go around.我怕苹果不够分配。

英语六级真题

The fear of massive copying.

After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms, says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World Wide Fund for Nature.

Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become permanently confused and thus their language development will be delayed ;this concern is not documented in the literature.

What distinguishes a depression from a harsh recession is paralyzing fear - fear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers, businesses, and investors to retreat and panic.

Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate (使持久) a free fall.

To curb the fear of a lasting free fall

On occasions it is the fear that certain disclosures may be unacceptable to family or friends that motivates an individual to seek professional help.

And though Hu Jintao and the rest of the Chinese leadership aren't inclined to lecture visiting Presidents, he might gently hint that Beijing is getting a little nervous about the value of the dollar-which has fallen 15% since March, in large part because of increasing fears that America's debt load is becoming unmanageable.

Still others emphasize the role of race, arguing that foreigners add to the nation's fears and insecurities.

It seems that men with traditional views of masculinity are more likely to suppress outward emotions and to fear emotions, supposedly because such feelings may lead to a loss of composure (镇定).

They have aroused fear among the residents.

"When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms," says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World wide Fund for Nature.

My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.

Some fear that the potential impact of sharing is too high, especially at the early stages of a career.

The amygdala is a crucial part of the brain that produces fear, anxiety and emotional responses including that sinking, guilty feeling you get when you lie.

The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear—man-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass.

These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.

They fear I will default on any business loan I'm given.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-VAR

恐惧;惧怕

Fear is the unpleasant feeling you have when you think that you are in danger.

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VERB

害怕;惧怕

If you fear someone or something, you are frightened because you think that they will harm you.

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N-VAR

担心;担忧;忧心

A fear is a thought that something unpleasant might happen or might have happened.

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VERB

担心;担忧;忧虑

If you fear something unpleasant or undesirable, you are worried that it might happen or might have happened.

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N-VAR

(坏事发生的)可能性，机会，几率

If you say that there is a fear that something unpleasant or undesirable will happen, you mean that you think it is possible or likely.

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VERB

(替…)担心;(为…)担忧

If you fear for someone or something, you are very worried because you think that they might be in danger.

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N-VAR

担心;担忧

If you have fears for someone or something, you are very worried because you think that they might be in danger.

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VERB

害怕做;不愿做

If you fear to do something, you are afraid to do it or you do not wish to do it.

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VERB

恐怕

You say that you fear that a situation is the case when the situation is unpleasant or undesirable, and when you want to express sympathy, sorrow, or regret about it.

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PHRASE

在对…的担心之中;在对…的恐惧之中

If you are in fear of doing or experiencing something unpleasant or undesirable, you are very worried that you might have to do it or experience it.

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PHRASE

以免;免得

If you take a particular course of action for fear of something, you take the action in order to prevent that thing happening.

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PHRASE

别担心;不用怕

You say 'fear not' or 'never fear' to someone when you are telling them not to worry or be frightened.

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CONVENTION

绝对不;当然不

You use 'no fear' to emphasize that you do not want to do something.

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PHRASE

故意吓唬;故意使…担心

If someone or something puts the fear of God into you, they frighten or worry you, often deliberately.

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英汉词典释义

n.

害怕, 恐惧

可能性

(对神等的)敬畏

忧虑，焦虑，担心

害怕的原因；值得忧虑之处；可能(性)，机遇

令人害怕的事物，可怕的事物

vt.

畏惧, 害怕, 担心

为…忧虑(或担心、焦虑)

敬畏(神等)

vi.

害怕, 忧虑

感到害怕，惧怕

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

2. an anxious feeling;

3. a profound emotion inspired by a deity;

Verb

1. be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event;

2. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;

3. be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;

4. be uneasy or apprehensive about;

5. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;

行业词典

体育： 恐惧；

医学： 恐惧，畏惧：外界实在的恐吓或危险引起的心理和心理生理反应所组成的情绪状态，参见anxiety；