单词详解 | trepidation

trepidation
音标
美音:/ˌtrepɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/,英音:/ˌtrepɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
“I follow the persistent situation of conflict in Ethiopia with trepidation,” Pope Francis said in a tweet.
教皇弗朗西斯在一条推文中说:“我对埃塞俄比亚持续不断的冲突局势感到恐惧。”
New York Times

She hopped a flight to Auckland with trepidation.
她战战兢兢地跳上飞往奥克兰的航班。
New York Times

Williams said he knows the gig is going to be "absolutely amazing" but he has feelings of "trepidation".
威廉姆斯说他知道演出将“绝对令人惊叹”,但他有“恐惧”的感觉。
BBC

基本释意
noun
a feeling of alarm or dread
n. 恐惧;惊恐;忧虑;颤抖

同义词
没有找到同义词

短释义
When plain old "fear" isn’t enough to get across a deep feeling of dread about something on the horizon, use the more formal word trepidation.
当普通的“恐惧”不足以表达对地平线上某事的深深恐惧时,请使用更正式的“恐惧”一词。

长释义
"It was with a certain trepidation that I attended an advance screening of Rob Zombie’s Halloween in Hollywood last night," wrote a film reviewer. Some dictionaries note that trepidation carries connotations of apprehension about an upcoming threat. In most cases, though, you can get by with the simpler word fear — why use three syllables when you could make do with one? The word comes from the Latin verb trepidare, "to tremble."
一位影评人写道:“昨晚我在好莱坞参加了罗布·僵尸万圣节的预映,我感到有些惶恐。”一些词典指出,恐惧带有对即将到来的威胁的担忧的含义。不过,在大多数情况下,您可以使用更简单的单词 fear 来应付——既然可以用一个音节来凑合,为什么还要使用三个音节呢?这个词来自拉丁语动词 trepidare,“颤抖”。

文学例句
It was only then that we remembered, with trepidation, our bundles.
直到那时,我们才惊恐地想起了我们的包裹。
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

She thought she’d be jumping up and down with excitement, but instead she felt trepidation.
她以为自己会兴奋得蹦蹦跳跳,没想到她却心惊肉跳。
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The next morning he entered his office in trepidation and waited to see what would happen.
第二天早上,他战战兢兢地走进办公室,等着看会发生什么。
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

词源
trepidation (n.)c. 1600, from French trepidation (15c.) and directly from Latin trepidationem (nominative trepidatio) "agitation, alarm, trembling," noun of action from past-participle stem of trepidare "to tremble, hurry," from trepidus "alarmed, scared," from PIE trep- (1) "to shake, tremble" (source also of Sanskrit trprah "hasty," Old Church Slavonic trepetati "to tremble"), related to trem- (see tremble (v.)). Related: Trepidacious (1915).Related entries & more 

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
恐惧(n.)c。 1600 年,来自法语 trepidation (15c.) 并直接来自拉丁语 trepidationem(主格 trepidatio)“激动、警报、颤抖”,来自 trepidare 的过去分词词干“颤抖、匆忙”的动作名词,来自 trepidus“惊慌、害怕、 ” 来自 PIE trep- (1) “to shake, treble”(也源自梵语 trprah “hasty”,古教会斯拉夫语 trepetati “to trepetati”),与 trem- 有关(参见 tremble (v.))。相关:Trepidacious (1915)。相关条目及更多


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