afraid经典引文

1. 恐怕的，害怕的，畏惧的，不敢的
2. 担心的，担忧的
3. 遗憾的，抱歉的

1. [P]害怕,畏惧 feeling fear; frightened
2. [P]担忧,忧虑 worried or anxious about the possible result of sth
3. [P]担心 frightened or worried about things that may put sb/sth in danger

1.害怕的；恐惧的
If you areafraid of someone orafraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.

e.g. She did not seem at allafraid...
她毫无惧色。
e.g. I wasafraid of the other boys...
我害怕其他的男孩们。

2.担心的；忧虑的
If you areafraid for someone else, you are worried that something horrible is going to happen to them.

afraid的近义词

e.g. She'safraid for her family in Somalia.
她为身在索马里的家人担心。

3.顾忌的；犯愁的
If you areafraid that something unpleasant will happen, you are worried that it may happen and you want to avoid it.

e.g. I wasafraid that nobody would believe me...
我担心没有人会相信我。
e.g. The Government isafraid of losing the election...
现届政府担心会在选举中落败。

4.（用以道歉或婉转地提出异议）很抱歉，很遗憾，恐怕
If you want to apologize to someone or to disagree with them in a polite way, you can sayI'm afraid.

e.g. We don't have anything like that, I'mafraid...
我们恐怕没有那样的东西。
e.g. I'mafraid I can't help you...
恐怕我帮不了你。

• be afraid害怕
• look afraid显得害怕
• seem afraid好像害怕

• half afraid有点怕
• not a bit afraid一点不怕
• awfully afraid非常害怕
• cautiously afraid怕得谨小慎微
• childishly afraid非常幼稚地怕
• constantly afraid一直怕
• curiously afraid怕得叫人难以理解
• deadly afraid怕得要命
• distressingly afraid怕得令人痛苦
• dreadfully afraid怕得要死
• extraordinarily afraid特别害怕
• faint-heartedly afraid怕得毫无勇气
• foolishly afraid怕得非常愚蠢
• frightfully afraid非常害怕
• genuinely afraid真怕
• horribly afraid极其害怕
• idiotically afraid非常愚蠢地害怕,怕得荒唐
• incomprehensibly afraid莫名其妙地怕,怕得让人不可思议
• incredibly afraid怕得难以置信
• intensely afraid非常怕
• mortally afraid极其怕
• mysteriously afraid怕得让人费解
• nervously afraid非常紧张地怕,怕得让人不安
• obviously afraid很明显地怕
• oddly afraid怕得出奇
• perpetually afraid永远害怕
• queerly afraid怕得令人费解
• really afraid真怕
• secretly afraid暗自害怕
• starkly afraid怕得要命
• strangely afraid莫名其妙地害怕
• superstitiously afraid因迷信而害怕
• surprisingly afraid出人意料地害怕
• suspiciously afraid怕得疑神疑鬼
• temperamentally afraid怕得直发脾气
• terribly afraid非常害怕
• timidly afraid怕得令人胆小
• timorously afraid怕得令人胆小
• unquestionably afraid毫无疑问地怕
• unusually afraid异常地害怕
• unwontedly afraid异常地害怕

• afraid for sb/sth为某人〔某事〕担心
• afraid of sth/sb怕某事〔某人〕
• afraid of v -ing怕做某事

• I was affraid of trampling on every traveller that I met.

  出自：Swift

• Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.

  出自：Pope

• I am afraid you do not like your pen.

  出自：J. Austen

• Afraid lest the poetical spirit should be swept away.

  出自：G. H. Lewes

• A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.

  出自：J. M. Synge

• I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

  出自：T. S. Eliot

• I was afraid..that my house was on fire.

  出自：Scott Fitzgerald

• Mother was afraid I should freeze in the Parisian hotels.

  出自：W. Stevens

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自盎格鲁法语的afrayer，意为惊恐；最初源自古法语的esfreer。