apprehensive
英 [æprɪ'hensɪv]
美[,æprɪ'hɛnsɪv]
- adj. 忧虑的；不安的；敏悟的；知晓的
词态变化
副词: apprehensively;
英英释意
- 1. quick to understand;
- "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 2. mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried;
- "anxious parents"
- "anxious about her job"
- "not used to a city and anxious about small things"
- "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- 3. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm;
- "apprehensive for one's life"
- "apprehensive of danger"
英文词源
- apprehensive (adj.)
- late 14c., "capable of perceiving, fitted for mental impression," from Medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehensus, past participle of apprehendere (see apprehend). Meaning "fearful of what is to come" is recorded from 1718, via notion of "capable of grasping with the mind" (c. 1600). Related: Apprehensively; apprehensiveness.
实用场景例句
- People are still terribly apprehensive about the future.
- 人们对于将来仍然非常担心。
柯林斯例句
- I was a little apprehensive about the effects of what I had said.
- 我有点担忧我说的话的后果。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- He was rather apprehensive of failure.
- 他相当害怕失败.
《简明英汉词典》
- I am apprehensive that she may fall ill.
- 我担心她会病倒.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Judgement is implied in every apprehensive act.
- 每一种理解的行为都说明是运用了判断.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- I had never seen bombing on such a scale, and I was healthily apprehensive.
- 我从未见过如此大规模的轰炸，所以我的恐惧是理所当然的。
柯林斯例句
- Her silence made him feel more apprehensive as he kept talking.
- 这静默使他愈说愈心慌.
汉英文学 - 围城
- He wondered uneasily what it meant, and began to feel vaguely apprehensive.
- 他心神不定地问自己:这到底是什么意思呢?他开始感到一种莫名其妙的恐惧.
辞典例句
- He was not apprehensive or timid through his imagination.
- 他不会由于想像而变得疑虑或者胆怯.
辞典例句
- Mr. Herwell is apprehensive about hurting other people's feelings.
- 赫尔威先生害怕伤害别人的感情.
辞典例句
- I am apprehensive for my sister's safety.
- 我为妹妹的安全感到担心.
辞典例句
- They were apprehensive of the enemy attacking them.
- 他们担心敌人来袭.
辞典例句
- I was a little apprehensive about this enterprise.
- 对这企业我有一点忧虑.
辞典例句
- We were apprehensive that they might forget.
- 我们担心他们会忘记.
辞典例句
- He is apprehensive of his own fully.
- 他认识到自己的愚蠢行为.
辞典例句