英:[ˌæprɪ'hensɪvlɪ]
美:[ˌæprɪ'hensɪvlɪ]
英:[ˌæprɪ'hensɪvlɪ]
美:[ˌæprɪ'hensɪvlɪ]
词根:apprehend
adj.apprehensive 忧虑的;不安的;敏悟的;知晓的
vi.apprehend 理解;担心
vt.apprehend 理解;逮捕;忧虑
adjective
viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future
… many adults who do not think twice about the risks of driving an automobile are apprehensive about flying.—Henry Petroski
capable of understanding or quick to do so : discerning
having awareness or knowledge of something : cognizant
see apprehension
The first known use of apprehensive was in the 14th century
apprentice1 of 2noun
a person who is learning a trade or art by experience under a skilled worker
apprentice2 of 2verb
to set at work as an apprentice
apprehensiveadjective
fearful of what may be coming
1 Sam blinked at the sudden glare and looked around apprehensively.
2 He glanced a trifle apprehensively towards the crowded ballroom.
他敏捷地朝挤满了人的舞厅瞟了一眼。
3 He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.
4 Riccio had finished and was looking at him apprehensively, but Scipio was quiet, thinking.
5 The man himself seemed to be watching me apprehensively, waiting to see what I would do.
那男人好像正担心得望着我,等着看我下一步要干什么。
6 He waited for her cry or scream and looked apprehensively at the closed door.
7 Yet in an early scene in her new movie she's apprehensively clutching a guitar on a small stage, singing an original song over the hum of a New York bar.
8 Looking apprehensively at my mucous-stained face, she slowly asked, “Do you really want to know?”
9 I got to picking up papers apprehensively—much as one would lift a desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it.
从此,我一拿起报纸就忐忑不安——就像某人想拿起一条他渴望得到的毯子,却担心下面有条响尾蛇一样。
10 Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and load the sled.
他们开始动手拆帐篷,装雪橇,巴克在一旁担心地看着他们。
11 But in a few moments, one ash-stained employee stumbled forward, followed by another and another, and then the entire mob was apprehensively coming toward them.
12 Sheriff Cocchi has eyed this approaching bulge apprehensively because when it arrives, he will be in the middle of it.
13 I watched them go down the road, their shawls close around them, looking back apprehensively at us.
14 I waited apprehensively for him to comment.
我战战兢兢地等着他给出评论。
15 And so, I made a new Discord account — I wasn’t out yet and didn’t want this server linked with my main account — and, somewhat apprehensively, followed the link.
16 For a moment, we forgot about the pelicans as we watched a floofy gull chick hobble down the beach and stand apprehensively on the water’s edge.
17 The doctor hesitated, and glanced up apprehensively at the grinning faces over the nursery door.
18 Matthias tested the knot apprehensively as the sparrow told him what she proposed to do.
19 But at the end of season four, Noah watched apprehensively as Claire publicly outed herself by using her powers on TV.
20 Some of the ghost people were looking up apprehensively, but more of them were staring at Will and Lyra, and then they began to crowd forward.
2 不安
nervous uncomfortable anxious rocky troubled insecure restless uneasy disturbed apprehensive queasy twitchy harassed unquiet suspensive suspensively uncomfortably uneasily alarmedly fear sweat discomfort disturbance fret dread unrest suspense dismay agitation angst qualm malaise unease misgiving perturbation uneasiness distemper disquiet solicitude discomposure inquietude totter unanchor disturb rattle psych fidget discompose get under skin with bated breath anxious seat
3 担心地