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单词 trepidation
释义
trepidationtrep‧i‧da‧tion /ˌtrepəˈdeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtrepidation
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin trepidatio, from trepidare ‘to shake’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I open my home with some trepidation and humility.
  • I threw in my entire savings toward the down-payment and, with trepidation, agreed to manage the building.
  • It was a day that should rightly be viewed with some trepidation, but not in the time of Amos.
  • It was with some trepidation that I slid a 5-pound chicken with peeled, quartered potatoes into the 500-degree oven.
  • Some of this apparent trepidation is due to overwhelming self criticism of the proposal.
  • When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 With some trepidation, I opened the door.
a feeling of anxiety or fear about something that is going to happen:  With some trepidation, I opened the door.
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