英语释义

1. to eat or gnaw into corrode also fray
The acid fretted the metal.

2. rub, chafe
The harness strap was fretting the horse.

3. to make by wearing away a substance
the stream fretted a channel

4. to cause to suffer emotional strain vex
don't you fret yourself about me
— J. C. Powys

5. to pass (time) in fretting
a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage
— William Shakespeare

6. agitate, ripple
fret the surface of the lake

7. to eat into something

8. to affect something as if by gnawing or biting grate
the … urgent voice fretted at his nerves
— Graham Greene

9. wear, corrode
Marble frets away due to the rain.

10. chafe
His back where the harness rubbed began to fret.

11. fray sense 1

12. to become vexed or worried
fretting over the high cost of feeding their families
— Vance Packard

13. to become agitated
a brook fretting over rocks

14. the action of wearing away erosion

15. a worn or eroded spot

16. an agitation of mind irritation

17. to decorate with interlaced designs

18. to form a pattern upon

19. to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns

20. an ornamental network especially a medieval metallic or jeweled net for a woman's headdress

21. an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles

22. one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (such as a guitar)

23. to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the frets

24. worry entry 1 sense 1
… it was a thing which could not be helped, so I seldom fretted about it …
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee

25. an irritated or worried state

片语

Frets Johnnie名称

Jumbo frets品

fret over为…着急

frets marker品位标记点

Raised frets通品

Guitar Frets吉他指板

LESS FRETS减苦恼

Johnnie Frets标签

Medium frets中等烦恼的

frets frets基质间片

英汉例句

• In foreign policy he frets about the risk of Turkey moving away from the West.

  外交政策方面，他对土耳其脱离西方的风险感到担忧。

• A recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Centre describes an uptick in the number of 「Patriot」 militia groups since Mr Obama「s election and frets that some could turn violent.

  南方贫困法中心最近的一份报告显示，自从奥巴马当选以来，各种「爱国」民兵组织的数量见长，对其中一些团体的暴力倾向，报告深表担忧。

• He frets and frets and frets for a week, then gradually forgets about it.

  他日夜烦恼了一个星期，然后逐渐忘掉这件闹心事。

• In contrast to the fearless Victorian explorers he quotes, Sir Vidia frets that one herbalist may have cursed him with a nose tickle.

  与他援引的维多利亚时代无所畏惧的开拓者相反，作者为也许某个草药医生会咀咒他鼻子发痒的想法而发愁。

• The globalization that Friedman frets over was critical to the Indian rebirth.

  弗里德曼所烦恼的全球化却是印度重生的关键。

• The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed.

  那条河侵蚀河岸直到一条新的河道形成。

• Professor Cole frets about the growing gap between the richest (not Columbia, wealthy though it is by global standards) and the rest.

  科尔教授担心的是，最富有的大学(哥伦比亚大学还算不上，虽然按全球标準划分，也算比较富有)和其它大学之间差距正在加大。

• The BIS frets that companies and governments might load up on short-term debt to cut borrowing costs; in fact, they seem to be doing the opposite.

  国际清算银行担心公司和政府可能会增加短期债务来减少借贷成本；事实上，看来他们做得正好相反。

• The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) frets that looser rules will let key derivative traders, such as hedge funds, off the hook.

  证券交易委员会（简称证交会）担心太宽松的条款可能会让像对沖基金这样的主要衍生物的交易者漏网。

• Industry frets that Germans pay more for electricity than almost all other Europeans.

  行业内苦恼的是德国在电费方面的支出高于其他大多数欧洲国家。

• The project frets about how to square the 「competing demands of excellence, ethics, and earnings」.

  这项专题研究的苦恼在于如何平衡「杰出、道德準则和收入的竞争性需求」。

• He also frets that heavy-handed regulation may stop America from taking advantage of its vast reserves of shale gas.

  过度的管制可能将阻碍美国利用其储量丰富的页巖气，对此他也很烦恼。

• He frets about sewage in north Gaza, but is also worried that Europe and the US have still not grasped the enormity of the shift of power to Asia.

  他不仅担心加沙北部的污水，而且也担心欧洲和美国仍旧没能理解权利转向亚洲所带来的巨大影响。

• While a person admires their beauty or frets about how much extra weight they put on over Christmas, the mirror displays their temperature and an alarm sounds if they are deemed feverish.

  当你对镜欣赏容貌，或者为圣诞节长胖了不少而烦恼时，「体温镜」就可以显示出你的体温，如果发烧还会发出警报。

• He frets that since 2004 the approval rate has steadily risen from 18% to 23%. It is still rising.

  他担心地指出，自2004年起，这一组织的比例已经从18%稳步增长至23%，并继续增加。

• He frets that the market for packaging auto loans into securities - a process known as securitization - will shut down.

  他担心将汽车行业的债权打包成为证券的市场——一个证券化的过程——将会萎缩。

• The old editorial frets about the 「demon of tuberculosis」 and diarrheal diseases in Africa, conditions we have yet to exorcise.

  这篇旧时的社论表达了对非洲「肺结核恶魔」和腹泻疾病的担忧，而直至现今，我们仍未根除这些疾病。

• 「We would have preferred the auction to go ahead,」 says one senior Italian banker, who frets that postponement has rattled nerves.

  「我们宁愿拍卖继续进行」某意大利资深银行家说道，他担心延期会激怒大家的情绪。

• As the country frets about extricating itself from the financial mess, there is one group of Americans to whom the rest of us owe the most sincere words of apology.

  当这个国家正为从财务困境中自救而烦躁时，有一群美国人，我们所有人都欠他们一声最诚挚的道歉。

• This, frets Mr Surroi, will 「suck the political energy of Kosovo」s society」 and distort normal political life for years to come, in both Kosovo and Serbia.

  苏罗伊先生恼怒地表示，这会「吸干科索沃社会的政治能量」并扭曲未来多年的正常的政治生活，科索沃与塞尔维亚同时都会受到影响。

• As the Central Bank's headline rate approaches this level, the government frets about a flood of money into these accounts from investors, draining liquidity from the market for government bonds.

  巴西央行的主要利率接近这种水平，因为政府担心投资者大量的资本涌入此账户，耗尽资金从市场到政府债券的流动。

• EWG frets that the remaining chemicals, which have no mandatory federal safety standards, can come in potentially toxic combinations for long-term consumption.

  EWG担心的是其余那些没有联邦强制性安全标準制约的化学物质公众长期饮用被后可能会产生混合毒性。

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gnaw咬；折磨；侵蚀

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