Front | apprehend |
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Pron | [ˌæprɪ'hend] |
Back | 【apprehend】 v.忧惧;捕捉 A guilty man apprehends danger in every sound. 犯了罪的人每听到一个声音就感到害怕。 The thief who had stolen the jewels was apprehended by the police and was put in jail. 那偷珠宝的小偷被警方捉去了,而且关入了监狱。 |
Vocab | apprehendanticipate with dread or anxiety
To apprehend is to capture or arrest, as when the police try to apprehend criminals and bring them to justice. You also apprehend a concept when you understand it, grasping or capturing its meaning. The verb apprehend has remained much the same since the original Latin, both in form and meaning. It comes from apprehendere "to grasp or seize." The word came to refer to learning — "grasping or seizing with the mind" — but then came to mean "seize in the name of the law" or "arrest" around the 1540s, a meaning that remains to this day. The word can also be used to suggest an anxious feeling about something about to happen. All forms of 'apprehend' will appear on average once every 156 pages. apprehend apprehended apprehender apprehensible apprehension apprehensive misapprehend apprehensively apprehensiveness unapprehensive misapprehension |
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