喜樂美語
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    aB2

    /ˌæprɪˈhensɪv/

    a little worried or nervous about something you will do soon, or about the future, because you are not sure how it will be.

    忐忑；擔心

    比較級 more apprehensive最高級 most apprehensive

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture the feeling in the waiting room before an interview: not fear exactly, but a tight, sense because you cannot tell yet how it will go. The worry always points forward at something that has not happened.

可以想成：面試前坐在等候室裡的那種感覺——說不上是害怕，但心裡緊緊的、安定不下來，因為還不知道等一下會怎麼樣。這份不…更多收起可以想成：面試前坐在等候室裡的那種感覺——說不上是害怕，但心裡緊緊的、安定不下來，因為還不知道等一下會怎麼樣。這份不安永遠指向前方那件還沒發生的事。

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

apprehensiveadj/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv/

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    Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant.

    • This convinc'd me that there was no going on Shore for us in the Night upon that Coaſt, and how to venture on Shore in the Day was another Queſtion too; for to have fallen into the Hands of any of the Savages, had been as bad as to have fallen into the Hands of Lyons and Tygers; at leaſt we were equally apprehenſive of the Danger of it.
    • But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
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    obsoletePerceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.

    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

apprehensivenoun/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA mood indicating an undesired outcome.

    • In 16.66 the non-visual apprehensive is used with the third-person.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。