英语释义

1. to fear greatly
can't swim and dreads the water a dreaded disease

2. to regard with awe

3. to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face
dread the future dreaded telling him the truth dread the thought of speaking in public

4. to be apprehensive or fearful
dread not

5. great fear especially in the face of impending evil
were filled with dread by reports of another terrorist attack

6. extreme uneasiness in the face of a disagreeable prospect (see prospect entry 1 sense 4c)
dread of a social blunder

7. awe

8. one causing fear or awe
the days of wooden ships and wooden homes, when fire was an omnipresent dread
— F. W. Saunders

9. dreadlock sense 1
trimming each dread

10. dreadlock sense 2
looked great in dreads

11. causing great fear or anxiety
dread diseases

12. inspiring awe
our dread king

13. to fear something that will or might happen

14. a strong feeling of fear about something that will or might happen

15. a person or thing that causes fear

16. causing great fear

17. to fear or dislike greatly
He can't swim and dreads going into the water.

18. to be very unwilling to face
I dread Monday.

19. great fear especially of something that will or might happen
… her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark …
— L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

20. causing great fear or anxiety
a dread disease

片语

dreading I终究还是我

Although I was dreading莫名的恐惧在心中挥之不去

time dreading计时阅读

dreading pain终究还是痛

dreading psychology恐慌心理

Dreading Of Death怕死

dread lord暗黑之主（游戏中任务名称）

dreading clause搭载他货条款

open-shelf dreading开架借阅

Dreading Today害怕今天

英汉例句

• sometimes, when you「re dreading saying something, you just want to blurt it out and get it over with -- but by waiting, you might get a better result. (see #8 on this, too.)

  有时候，当你害怕说某件事，你只希望脱口而出，然后了事——可是等一会再说，你也许会获得更好的结果（参考第八点）。

• we were all waiting for and dreading our notifications.

  我们都在心情忐忑的等待着。

• if you find yourself hanging out all-too-often in cyberspace and dreading the next interview-style coffee date, you might be suffering from odf

  如果你发现你总是在网络空间里流连，却害怕下一个面试式的「咖啡」约会，那么你很有可能正患有网络交友疲劳癥。

• you may be seeing relatives you haven’t seen in years and are dreading the interrogation questions that will surely be accompanying them.

  你可能会见到多年未见的亲戚们并且肯定会被问及一些让你想要逃避的问题。

• as the aftershocks continue through the night—not to mention the phantom shocks that people mistakenly feel—everyone is dreading tomorrow」s news.

  排除人们的错觉，随着整夜余震的不断，人们都对明天的消息感到恐惧。

• you may equally be dreading spending the day with relatives you see often.

  与那些常见面的亲戚们度过假期你同样也会很头痛。

• 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。

• trick yourself by putting a big task you「ve been dreading at the top of your list.

  把一个你迟迟不敢下手的大任务放在任务清单的最前面用来忽悠你自己。

• both are dreading what their mother will make of it.

  兄弟俩担心的是他们母亲会怎么想。

• the eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that hester prynne clasped her hands over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once.

  那个满脸皱纹的学者的眼睛，亮闪闪地死盯住海丝特白兰，直逼得她用双手紧紧捂住胸口，唯恐他马上从那儿读到她的秘密

• dreading or fearing something makes us want to put it off, to postpone even thinking about it, and to do something easy and safe instead.

  畏畏缩缩使得我们总是拖延着不去做，甚至不去想，反而总想做些容易而又有把握的事情。

• ”i closed my eyes, dreading the hopelessness of my situation.

  我闭上眼睛，处境让我不堪设想。

• so it」s certainly worth your effort to carefully access how this time is spent so that you can find creative ways to enjoy your work days and not spend another sunday afternoon dreading the next day.

  所以，这值得你认真地努力去计算你的时间如何利用，以至于你能够找到创造性的方法让你充分享受工作的每一天，而不是花费另一个星期天的下午去为接下来的一天痛苦。

• to this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy.

  关于这一点，他一直很谨慎，唯恐把我惹急了。你一定要说明白我若放弃这个策略的危险性，而且提醒他我的暴躁脾气，只要一闹起来，就会发狂的。

• finding a new job will be difficult, but is the prolonged anxiety of paying the rent any worse than dreading coming into work?

  找一份新工作是很难的，但为付房租这样长时间的焦虑真的比害怕去工作更糟糕吗？

• like most parents, i am dreading the day she is gone, when i「ll lose my daily contact with her, and am hoping that she calls regularly.

  像大多数父母，我害怕她离开家的日子里，我将不能每天接触她，而希望她能经常打电话。

• once we arrive, we’re not excited to be there and we are dreading the things we must get done.

  当我们一到工作地点，就一点也没有了抵达目的地的喜悦之情，而且为之后必须要做的事感到害怕担忧。

• if you still find yourself dreading mondays no matter what you do, then maybe it」s time to think about a career change.

  假如你一直认为，每个星期一，无论自己做什么都很痛苦，那么或许，你是时候应该考虑换一份工作了。

• 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。

相似词

apprehension理解；恐惧；逮捕；忧惧

foreboding预感的；不祥之兆的

misgiving使……疑虑，使担忧，使害怕（misgive 的现在分词）