英语释义

1. due to being afraid of
He won't say anything for fear of losing his job.

片语

for fear of discovery担心

For fear of loneliness因为害怕孤独

For fear of cats因为害怕猫

For Fear Of A因为怕

for fear of accidents因怕发生事故

For fear of hiding因为害怕所以躲了起来

for r fear of以免

for fear of failure生怕失败

英汉例句

• others are reluctant to take such a drastic step for fear of alienating customers.

  因为担心疏远旅客，其他航空公司不愿意采取这种激进的措施。

• teams go to extremes on communicating; they are either too shy or are overly eager in their communication for fear of either doing too much or too little.

  沟通时团队会走向极端；他们担心做的太多或太少，在沟通过程中因太内向而说得太少，或者因太外向而说得太多。

• he repents having compensated the dispensable pension for fear of penalty.

  他后悔因害怕处罚而补偿了不必要的养老金。

• 「we will fight them on the streets and will never give up so long as gadhafi is still in power, 」 said one of the rebel fighters, who also spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

  「我们将和他们在街道作战，只要卡扎菲依然掌权我们就绝不放弃。」一位叛军战士说，为了避免报复他也是以匿名为条件接收的采访。

• but observers say that many more workers who feel silenced don「t take action for fear of losing their jobs.

  可是，观察人士说，更多被迫保持沉默的工人由于担心失去工作而没有采取行动。

• your alternative – to hold on to nurse for fear of finding something worse – is in any case a century too late.

  你的选择——坚持培养担心发现更糟糕局面的惊恐之心 ——无论在哪种情况下讲都晚了一个世纪。

• clients may want to believe that they made the right choice of adviser in the first place, or will 「cling to nurse, for fear of finding something worse」.

  客户可能想要相信他们在第一时间选择了正确的顾问，或者「因为担心出现更早的情况从而抱紧保姆」。

• this kind of person constantly agrees with everything others suggest, for fear of having their own ideas rejected.

  这种人总是同意别人建议的每件事，就因为害怕自己的意见会遭到拒绝。

• neither wants to be responsible for breaking up the coalition, for fear of something worse.

  任何一方都不想为打破这种联合负责任，因为他们担心事情会变的更糟糕。

• mrs. you said that she hopes her daughter will not form a romantic relationship early, but if she does she will not oppose it for fear of it having a negative effect on her daughter.

  对于自己的女儿，游太太表示，当然希望她不要过早地恋爱，但如果真的恋爱了也不一定反对，因为健康的交往对她的生活学习未必就一定带来负面影响。

• as word gets around that people are buying dca to use as a drug, suppliers of the chemical are clamping down for fear of breaking the law.

  自从有传闻说人们在到处求购dca当药物使用以后，这种药品的供应商纷纷关闭有关通道，因为他们担心触犯刑律。

• 「elisabeth was his only rock in life,」 said a former childhood friend, who would not give his name for fear of reprisals because he is not an ethnic norwegian.

  伊丽莎白是他生活中唯一一个可以依赖的人,"一位童年玩伴说，他不愿透露姓名，怕因为他不是纯正挪威人而遭到报复。

• people like mrs luebbe, in contrast, are against it for fear of what an accident might do to her livelihood.

  相反，和吕伯一样的人们反对该工程是因为担心万一发生事故会影响到她的生计。

• and he originally did not seek to invest equity in part thinking that banks would refuse the money for fear of looking weak.

  并且，最初他没有寻求投资股票，部分是出于对银行拒绝这笔钱的担心，因为这会让银行看起来有机可趁。

• and parents around the country walk along their young children for fear of their safety.

  这个国家的父母都围在孩子的身边，因为担心他们的安全问题。

• ayman, who did not give his full name for fear of reprisals against his relatives still in areas under colonel qaddafi’s control, joined the revolution soon after it began in eastern libya.

  因为担心遭到他的那些仍在卡扎菲上校控制下的亲戚的报复，这个名叫埃门的人没有给出他的全名，而他早在利比亚东部革命之初就已经踏上这条路。

• and yet, for fear of sharks, 「i won」t let my two kids go surfing.

  不过，出于对鲨鱼的恐惧，她说“我不会让我两个孩子去沖浪。」

• it is hard to avoid the suspicion that ernst was allowed to keep its existing clients for fear of the consequences if they were taken away.

  很难消除这样一个猜疑，就是安永之所以被允许保留原有客户就是因为担心出现原有客户也被全部取消后导致的前述后果。

• so we were surprised to catch sight of her there on a weekday; plus, she was walking fast and barely greeting those she passed, for fear of being delayed along the way.

  因此我们平时在那里见到她的影子都很惊讶；再说，她那时走得很快，几乎没跟任何照面的人打声招呼，因为怕耽搁了她的行程。

• he did not publish his work on soviet sociology for fear of offending the kremlin.

  茂文因担心得罪克里姆林宫没有出版自己的苏联社会学研究。

• basically, the big teams with high expectations play these first-round games just to get through. i don't think consciously but more for fear of failure.

  基本上，那些被寄予厚望的强队在踢这种第一轮比赛时只求晋级就好，这显然是害怕输球的心理在作祟。

• humanitarian folks try to avoid mixing too much with military types for fear of being identified as combatants.

  人道主义军团因为担心被误认为是好战的，所以尽力避免和和武装力量混淆太多。