VERB 非常担心;极为害怕 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... 今年我非常害怕过圣诞节。
I dreaded coming back, to be honest... 说实话,我生怕回来。
I suffer badly from cold sores and dread them appearing on my wedding day... 我的唇疱疹很严重,我真担心它会在我的婚礼上发作。
I'd been dreading that the birth would take a long time. 我一直十分担心分娩会花很长时间。
N-UNCOUNT 忧虑;恐惧 Dread is a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen.
She thought with dread of the cold winters to come. 她害怕即将来临的寒冷冬季。
ADJ 可怕的;令人畏惧的 Dread means terrible and greatly feared.
...a more effective national policy to combat this dread disease. 对抗这可怕疾病的更有效的国家政策
ADJ 恼火的;生气的;不想要的 You can use dread to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying or undesirable.
I'd been dreading that the birth would take a long time. 我一直十分担心分娩会花很长时间。
Pauline spent three wretched hours at the cinema dreading the moment when she must go home and face her husband again. 保琳在电影院呆了三个小时,她不愿意回家再面对她的丈夫。
I've never been a clock-watcher, but this place is turning me into one: I can't wait to get out of here at the end of the day, and spend every Sunday dreading Monday. 原来的我并不是那种盯着表盼下班的人,但在这里我却成了这样。一到下班时间我就迫不及待地逃离办公室。
I must confess that a small part of me has been dreading the vacation a bit. 我必须承认,我有一点恐惧休假。
Let your manager know that you're looking forward to your evaluation, not dreading it. 让你的经理知道你对评估的期许,不要害怕它。
No more dreading facing him or her. 再也不害怕面对他/她。
Now comes the dreaded follow-up, Cave added, not looking as though he was dreading it at all. 现在是让人担心的续作,凯夫补充,不过他看上去可一点不担心。
Rachel: Oh, like I wasn't dreading tomorrow enough, having to give it back to him. 明天就要还他戒指,我似乎还不够担心。
Tuesday afternoon, one worker said she was dreading the commute home. 星期二下午,一名工人说,想到回家的路途就令她忐忑不安。
If you examine why you're dreading a particular conversation, you might be able to tackle it in a different way, or re-frame the issue in a way that's less upsetting. 如果你检视了为何害怕某个特点的对话,你也许能采取不同的方式来应对,或可以用一个不愉快度较低的方式重构问题。
Each morning, I had been waking up and dreading going to work-the company I work for has a very stressful environment, and being there takes a lot out of me. 以前的每天早上,我醒来后都对一天的工作充满恐惧&我在那家公司工作压力很大。
I've been dreading this moment for six years. 这个时刻我等了六年了。
It felt wrong to be dreading work at such a young age. 年纪轻轻就对工作感到厌烦,实在太不应该。
She went home for a family get-together which she'd been dreading. 她回家去和家人团聚,尽管她直都不愿去。
He's dreading his driving test-he's sure he's going to fail. 他害怕驾驶测试一他想他一定通不过。
I had been dreading, but half-expecting, this call for quite some time. 有很长一段时间,对于这个电话我一直提心吊胆,但也在意料之中。
To this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy. 关于这一点,他一直很谨慎,唯恐把我惹急了。你一定要说明白我若放弃这个策略的危险性,而且提醒他我的暴躁脾气,只要一闹起来,就会发狂的。
After reading some of the reviews on here I was actually dreading my stay at this hotel but I found the rooms ( 3) we had well above what I expected. 度过这里酒店评价之后我真的很担心我住这家酒店会不会让我很不舒服,但是进到我订到的房间之后我发觉完整超乎我的设想。
Fig I'm dreading moving to another country, it makes me ill just to think about it. 我害怕搬到其他国家去,只是想想也会使我不舒服。
I was dreading the next day because I knew we wouldn't have any macaroni at home. 我非常担心第二天的事,因为我很清楚家里不会有通心粉。
So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided; 所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导;
I'm dreading having to ring her because I know she's going to be furious with me. 我很怕要给她打电话,因为我知道她一定会对我极其愤怒的。
And how do I stop my wife from divorcing me, as she says she is dreading the whole event? 另外,我怎么才能阻止我妻子和我离婚呢?因为她说她对整件事感到惴惴不安。
I am eager to get away from work but I am dreading what will happen next. 我是热切得离开工作但我畏惧我下一步。
The moment I had been dreading had arrived. 使我一直忐忑不安的时刻已经来到。
This was the moment I'd been dreading for the past six months. 我魂牵梦绕了六个多月的时刻终于来了。
I'm absolutely dreading making the after-dinner speech& I don't know what possessed me to agree to it! 我非常不愿作宴会后发言&不知道怎么鬼使神差地我竟答应了!
All morning I was dreading lunch, fearing his bizarre glares. 整个早上我都在惧怕着午餐,害怕他异乎寻常的怒视。
You start your week dreading the days ahead and the work you have to do. 你启动一周所有人的日子里所做的工作,你必须做的事。