| 单词 | fearful |
| 释义 | fearful (fɪəʳfʊl ) 1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE, ADJECTIVE that] If you are fearful of something, you are afraid of it. [formal] Bankers were fearful of a world banking crisis. [+ of] I had often been very fearful, very angry, and very isolated. Synonyms: timid, afraid, frightened, scared fearfully adverb [usually ADVERB after verb, also ADVERB with cl] 'What are you going to do to me?' Alex asked fearfully. Synonyms: very, terribly, horribly, tremendously Synonyms: nervously, uneasily, timidly, apprehensively 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use fearful to emphasize how serious or bad a situation is. [formal, emphasis] The region is in a fearful recession. ...the fearful consequences which might flow from unilateral military moves. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Fearful is used to emphasize that something is very bad. [informal, old-fashioned, emphasis] You gave me a fearful shock! 'It sounds the most fearful hard work,' Sybil said later. fearfully adverb [ADVERB adjective] This is fearfully expensive compared with the last one I bought. Synonyms: very, terribly, horribly, tremendously Synonyms: nervously, uneasily, timidly, apprehensively Collocations: fearful memory He asked me to regress back to the 1970s and replace my fearful memories with something more soothing. The Sun One study indicates that traumatic experiences can produce fearful memories which are passed to future generations via epigenetics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been said to influence the amygdala by monitoring its reaction to emotional stimuli or even fearful memories. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His comments provoked a fearful reaction from a neighbour. Times, Sunday Times Naive laboratory-raised monkeys become fearful after witnessing another monkey's fearful reaction, even on videotape. Globe and Mail I would have that same guttural, fearful reaction. canada.com After three months, the observer rhesus macaques still showed strong fearful reactions toward snakes, suggesting that they had formed a strong connection from just observing their parents behavior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The big male was with us for less than a minute before he turned and his fearful symmetry was lost to the trees. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There is a fearful symmetry to the world. Times, Sunday Times (2008) What can we make of this fearful symmetry? Times, Sunday Times (2006) Increasingly fearful happenings follow its arrival. Times, Sunday Times So why are we increasingly fearful of growing old? Times, Sunday Times These voters are becoming increasingly fearful about what a far-left government would mean for them. The Sun The lower ranks, in both cases, are in a woeful state - ill paid, often hungry and, in the case of the police, increasingly fearful of popular anger. Times, Sunday Times The right superior temporal gyrus increasingly responds to an increasingly happy stimuli, while the left pulvinar increasingly responds to increasingly fearful stimuli. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 害怕的 Japanese: 恐れて |
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