| 单词 | dread |
| 释义 | dread (dred ) Word forms: dreads , dreading , dreaded 1. verb If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting. I'm dreading Christmas this year. [VERB noun/verb-ing] I dreaded coming back, to be honest. [VERB noun/-ing] I suffer badly from cold sores and dread them appearing on my wedding day. [V n -ing] I'd been dreading that the birth would take a long time. [VERB that] Synonyms: fear, shrink from, be anxious about, flinch from 2. uncountable noun Dread is a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen. She thought with dread of the cold winters to come. Synonyms: fear, alarm, horror, terror 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Dread means terrible and greatly feared. [literary] ...a more effective national policy to combat this dread disease. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can use dread to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying or undesirable. [informal, feelings] ...the dread phrase 'politically correct'. Synonyms: frightening, terrible, alarming, awful 5. See also dreaded 6. dread to think phrase If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant. I dread to think what will happen in the case of a major emergency. I dread to think how much it has cost. Collocations: dread a prospect I was dreading the prospect of hospital fare: bland food and sugary drinks. The Sun He was immature and obsessed, while she dreaded the prospect of a lifetime in the company of his besotted childishness. Times, Sunday Times She dreaded the prospect of walking around for months with the scarring - until she hit upon an ingenious solution. Times, Sunday Times The home crowd, quite clearly, dreaded the prospect of a penalty shootout. Times, Sunday Times He will spend the next couple of months dreading the prospect. The Sun Do you dread the thought of donning shorts or wearing sleeveless tops in the months ahead? The Sun I dread the thought of packing and moving again. Christianity Today No wonder couples who dread the thought of planning their wedding back home head here instead. The Sun You dread the thought of bouncing the ball miles short, or throwing it high over the catcher's head. The Sun Many dread the thought of another coalition, with almost seven in ten saying they would prefer to see a single party in full control. The Sun If it's yellow, then it may have the dreaded disease. Times, Sunday Times (2010) As many as 30 to 40 percent of people in their eighties have this dreaded disease. Christianity Today (2000) For me, it was 50 that made me stop, wail, and dread the moment. Times, Sunday Times They dread the moment they go from turning heads when they walk in a room to just being asked to turn on the telly. The Sun All music journos dread this moment. Times, Sunday Times I'm dreading the moment when he finally puts his foot down. Times, Sunday Times I dreaded the moment, but it was unexpectedly easy. Times, Sunday Times She had watched him go to it with a sense of dread and wasn't in the least surprised to learn that it had knocked him out. LOADED QUESTIONS (2004) The empty street behind her heightened the sense of dread that was filling her inside. IN REAL LIFE (2002) When she closed her eyes, all she could find was darkness shot with red, distant mutterings, cries, and an appalling sense of dread. AFTERMATH (2002) Translations: Chinese: 害怕, 恐惧 Japanese: 恐れる, 恐怖 |
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