fret

• vt. 使烦恼；焦急；使磨损
• vi. 烦恼；焦急；磨损
• n. 烦躁；焦急；磨损
• n. (Fret)人名；(法)弗雷；(西)弗雷特

来自Proto-Germonic*fra-etan, 吞噬，吃尽，*fra-, 完全的，词源同per-, *etan, 吃，词源同eat. 用来指魔鬼或维京海盗，后用于心理含义，指焦虑紧张等。

来自古法语frete, 格子饰，回纹饰。

1. agitation resulting from active worry;

"don't get in a stew"

"he's in a sweat about exams"

2. a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

3. an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief);

"there was a simple fret at the top of the walls"

4. a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

fret

fret: English has three separate words fret. Fret ‘irritate, distress’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic compound verb formed from the intensive prefix *fra- and the verb *etan (ancestor of English eat), which meant ‘eat up, devour’. Its modern Germanic descendants include German fressen ‘eat’ (used of animals). In Old English, it gave fretan, which also meant ‘devour’, but this literal meaning had died out by the early 15th century, leaving the figurative ‘gnaw at, worry, distress’. Fret ‘decorate with interlaced or pierced design’ [14] (now usually encountered only in fretted, fretwork, and fretsaw) comes from Old French freter, a derivative of frete ‘trellis, embossed or interlaced work’, whose origins are obscure.

Also lost in the mists of time are the antecedents of fret ‘ridge across the fingerboard of a guitar’ [16].
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fret (v.)

Old English fretan "devour, feed upon, consume," from Proto-Germanic compound *fra-etan "to eat up," from *fra- "completely" (see *per- (1)) + *etan "to eat" (see eat). Cognates include Dutch vreton, Old High German freggan, German fressen, Gothic fraitan.

Used of monsters and Vikings; in Middle English used of animals' eating. Notion of "wear away by rubbing or scraping" (c. 1200) might have come to this word by sound-association with Anglo-French forms of Old French froter "to rub, wipe; beat, thrash," which is from Latin fricare "to rub" (see friction). Figurative use is from c. 1200, of emotions, sins, vices, etc., "to worry, consume, vex" someone or someone's heart or mind, from either the "eating" or the "rubbing" sense. Intransitive sense "be worried, vex oneself" is by 1550s. Modern German still distinguishes essen for humans and fressen for animals. Related: Fretted; fretting. As a noun, early 15c., "a gnawing," also "the wearing effect" of awareness of wrongdoing, fear, etc.

fret (n.1)

"ornamental interlaced pattern," late 14c., from Old French frete "interlaced work, trellis work," probably from Frankish *fetur or another Germanic source (cognates: Old English fetor, Old High German feggara "a fetter, shackle") perhaps from the notion of "decorative anklet," or of materials "bound" together.

fret (n.2)

"ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar," c. 1500, of unknown origin, possibly from another sense of Old French frete "ring, ferule." Compare Middle English fret "a tie or lace" (early 14c.), freten (v.) "to bind, fasten" (mid-14c.).

worry, brood, care, fret

这些动词均有"烦恼，担忧"之意。

worry： 普通用词，着重使人焦虑、烦恼或深深不安。

brood语气比worry强，多指沉思、沮丧或忧郁。

care： 多指极强烈的关心和忧虑。常带纯客观的意味。

fret： 通常指因悲哀、焦虑或忧愁等所困扰的心理状态。

I see him chafe and fret at every pore.

我看见他非常暴躁.

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As she spoke we could see that she was in a fret.

她讲话时,我们看得出她很烦躁.

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He could rest only when he was too drained of energy to fret further.

只有当他精疲力竭无力再操心时他才能得以休息。

柯林斯例句

Don't fret, Mary. This is all some crazy mistake.

不要发愁，玛丽。这只是个有些荒唐的错误。

辞典例句

Don't fret so much about things: I'll think of something!

不要操心那些事罢! 我总有法子对付!

子夜部分

Don't fret, we'll get there on time.

别着急, 我们能准时到那里.

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She'll fret herself to death one of these days.

她 总 有一天会愁死的.

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Don't fret; everything will be all right.

别发愁, 一切都会好的.

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I fret about nothing on earth except papa's illness.

在世上除了爸爸的病,什么事也不会使我烦恼.

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You need not fret yourself about that.

你不必为那件事自寻烦恼.

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Don't fret away [ out ] your life.

别在烦恼中过日子.

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It won't help to fret about the problem.

为这个问题发愁是无济于事的.

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Peter used to fret about his foolishness.

彼得还是常因为自己笨而发愁.

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Doubts began to fret his mind.

疑虑开始使他心情烦躁.

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She gets in a fret whenever we're late.

只要我们一迟到,她就焦虑不安.

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