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trepidation n.恐惧；惊惶；忧虑；颤抖 (1) 他们诚惶诚恐一言不发。(2) 流行病猖獗因而人心惶惶。 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."

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英 [ˌtrepɪ'deɪʃn] 美 [ˌtrepɪ'deɪʃn] (1) They kept dumb in fear and trepidation.(2) The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and trepidation. 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. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]惊恐；惶恐；焦虑；不安 Trepidation is fear or anxiety about something that you are going to do or experience.   [oft with N]  [FORMAL 正式]It was with some trepidation that I viewed the prospect of cycling across Uganda.我带着些许惶恐考虑了一下骑自行车周游乌干达的可能性。

英语单词	trepidation
英美音标	英 [ˌtrepɪ'deɪʃn] 美 [ˌtrepɪ'deɪʃn]
中文释义	n.恐惧；惊惶；忧虑；颤抖
英语例句	(1) They kept dumb in fear and trepidation. (2) The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and trepidation.
中文例句	(1) 他们诚惶诚恐一言不发。 (2) 流行病猖獗因而人心惶惶。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]惊恐；惶恐；焦虑；不安 Trepidation is fear or anxiety about something that you are going to do or experience. [oft with N] [FORMAL 正式] It was with some trepidation that I viewed the prospect of cycling across Uganda. 我带着些许惶恐考虑了一下骑自行车周游乌干达的可能性。

Trepidation Fear Word I 英 ˌtrepɪ'Deɪʃn] 美 ˌtrepɪ'Deɪʃn N.恐惧；惊惶；忧虑；颤抖