Trepidation

(noun.) a feeling of alarm or dread.

整理:萨莎

• From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Neither of us would have felt the slightest trepidation in going into battle with some one else commanding. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The mother held on to him with both her shaking hands, and eyed with intense trepidation every one who walked up to examine him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Bella felt a little vague trepidation as to the subject-matter of this same consultation, until Mrs Boffin announced it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Pasteur, with great trepidation, but moved by his usual compassion, undertook the case. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He will be in a fine passion, said I to myself, in excessive trepidation; and I was in such a hurry to have it over that I related all immediately. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• If some one else had been colonel and I had been lieutenant-colonel I do not think I would have felt any trepidation. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach when I was to repair with my charge to the drawing-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

编辑:威拉