fear

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英[fɪə(r)]
美[fɪr]

基本释义

n.
恐惧; 担心; 担忧; 可能性
v.
害怕; 担心; (替…)担心

词性变化

实用例句

(a) fear of the dark/spiders/flying, etc.

害怕黑暗、蜘蛛、坐飞机等

牛津词典

Her eyes showed no fear.

她的眼神无丝毫畏惧。

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The child was shaking with fear .

小孩吓得发抖。

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We lived in constant fear of losing our jobs.

我们一直生活在担心失去工作的阴影里。

牛津词典

her fears for her son's safety

她对儿子安全的担忧

牛津词典

the fear that he had cancer

他对患癌症的恐惧

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I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.

我坐在地板上,吓得发抖。

...boyhood memories of sickness and fear of the dark...

儿时记忆中的病痛和对黑暗的恐惧

Many people fear change because they do not like the old ways to be disrupted.

很多人惧怕变化,因为他们不喜欢旧有的生活方式遭到破坏。

These youngsters are motivated not by a desire to achieve, but by fear of failure...

激发这些年轻人的不是对成就的渴望,而是对失败的担心。

Then one day his worst fears were confirmed...

后来有一天,他最担心的事终于发生了。

She had feared she was going down with pneumonia or bronchitis...

她担心会得肺炎或支气管炎。

More than two million refugees have fled the area, fearing attack by loyalist forces.

两百多万难民担心受到效忠旧政府的势力的攻击而逃离该地区。

There was no fear that anything would be misunderstood...

并无引起误会的可能性。

There is a fear that the freeze on bank accounts could prove a lasting deterrent to investors.

人们担心冻结银行账户可能会长期阻碍投资。

Carla fears for her son...

卡拉为儿子担心。

He fled on Friday, saying he feared for his life.

他星期五逃走了,说是担心自己有生命危险。

He also spoke of his fears for the future of his country's culture.

他也谈到了对祖国文化前途的担忧。

...fear for her own safety.

对她自己安全的担心

She pursed her lips together, as though fearing to betray her news...

她闭紧双唇,仿佛害怕透露出她的消息。

Old people fear to leave their homes.

老年人都不愿背井离乡。

I fear that a land war now looks very probable...

恐怕陆地战爆发的可能性很大。

'Is anything left at all?' — 'I fear not.'

“留下什么东西了吗?” ——“恐怕没有。”

The elderly live in fear of assault and murder.

老人们生活在对袭击和谋杀的恐惧之中。

She was afraid to say anything to them for fear of hurting their feelings...

她什么都不敢对他们说,以免伤害他们的感情。

No one dared shoot for fear of hitting Pete.

没人敢开枪,怕伤着皮特。

Fear not, Darlene will protect me...

别担心,达琳会保护我的。

You'll get the right training, never fear.

你会受到正规训练的,别担心。

When I asked him if he wanted to change his mind, William said 'No fear.'

我问威廉是否想改主意,他说:“绝不会。”

At some time or other Eve had obviously put the fear of God into her.

显然伊芙时不时有意吓唬她一下。

真题例句

Traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs also spoke to those fears.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Although the negative emotions associated with romantic love — fear of loss, disappointment and jealousy — are fairly consistent across cultures, the positive feelings can vary.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

They feared neither spouse could manage alone.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

But children are frequently discouraged from involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for fear that they might get dirty or that they might cause damage.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

They fear they will regret it afterwards.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype?

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Fear not, however, for coffee can stimulate them again.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had," she says.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In the second experiment meant to pit the mice's hunger against their fear, hungry mice were placed in a cage that had certain "fox-scented" areas and other places that smelled safer but also had food.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In the study, researchers found that hunger outweighed other physical drives, including fear, thirst and social needs.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Japan says fear of disease is its main reason to block fresh imports.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

She doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

with wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The fear of massive copying.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

To curb the fear of a lasting free fall

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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).

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

They have aroused fear among the residents.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

"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.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

As I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

He fears the worst, but hopes for the best.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized me.

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

If you fear the heyday of the snowman has passed, don't worry: I've learned that some explosive snowman history is still being made today.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It was usually because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Many people fear the gym because they feel lost and don't want to embarrass themselves.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Nervousness and fear were replaced with joy.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Some people fear such changes will be for the worse, while some see chances, not disaster.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

They fear losing control of their workers.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

While some people are motivated by a need for success, others are motivated by a fear of failure.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

While the fear hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right street.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Elected leaders must be allowed to help supporters deal with bureaucratic problems without fear of prosecution for bribery.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Elected leaders must be allowed to help supporters deal with bureaucratic problems without fear of prosecution of bribery.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Fear is both useful and harmful.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

My favorite actor will smith once said, "Fear is not real."

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, an executive mental coach.

2015年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated "race to the finish line," whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or a lucrative career.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be misinterpreted as "weird".

2015年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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;

    "care had aged him"

    "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

  • 3. a profound emotion inspired by a deity;

    "the fear of God"

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

    "I fear she might get aggressive"

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

    "I fear the winters in Moscow"

    "We should not fear the Communists!"

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

    "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"

  • 4. be uneasy or apprehensive about;

    "I fear the results of the final exams"

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

    "Fear God as your father"

    "We venerate genius"

同义词辨析

alarm, fear, fright, horror, panic, terror, dread

这些名词均含"恐惧,惧怕,惊恐"之意。

  • alarm:强调突然意识到有危险而产生的恐惧心理。
  • fear:普通用词,侧重指面临危险或灾祸时内心所引起的恐惧心情。
  • fright:通常指一阵突然的、令人震惊的短暂恐惧,有时含夸张意味。
  • horror:侧重指因看到令人讨厌或危险的东西或情景而引起的厌恶情绪、极度恐惧心情或战栗的动作。
  • panic:常指因突如其来的外界威胁使人群出现惊慌、恐惧或混乱。
  • terror:指极大的恐惧和惊骇,语气最强。
  • dread:可与fear换用,着重害怕的心理,但dread常指胆怯和丧失勇气。

同义词

vt.害怕,畏惧;担心

dreadafraidbe

反义词

其他释义

courageboldness

最新英语单词

行业英语