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Fraught usually comes with 'with' - 'fraught with danger' means full of danger, or 'fraught with problems' means full of problems. On its own, 'fraught' can also describe a situation, or a person, that is full of stress and worry - 'the meeting was fraught,' or 'she sounded fraught on the phone.'
充滿(問題/危險)的;(情況)緊張的
組成This is a very old word. It used to describe a ship that was 'loaded' with cargo - it's an old relative of the word 'freight.'
同家族的字
- freightboth come from an old root meaning to load a ship with cargo
原始詞典資料16 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。
fraughtnoun詞源 1/fɹɔːt/
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obsoletenauticaltransportThe hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
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obsoletenauticaltransportMoney paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
- fraught money
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obsoletenauticaltransportThe transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
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obsoletenauticaltransportA ship's cargo; freight, lading.
- VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd.
- And novv behold after my vvinters toyle, / My paynefull voyage on the boyſtrous ſea, / Of vvarres deuouring gulphes and ſteely rocks, / I bring my fraught vnto the vviſhed port / My Summers hope, my trauels ſvveet reward: […]
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obsoleteTwo bucketfuls.
- The manse […] is reached […] by a wide, straight path, so rough that to carry a fraught of water to the manse without spilling was to be superlatively good at one thing.
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obsoleteA burden, a load.
- Thoſe morning haunts are vvhere they ſhould be at home, not ſleeping, or concocting the ſurfets of an irregular Feaſt, but up and ſtirring, […] in Summer as oft vvith the Bird that firſt rouſes, or not much tardier, to reade good Authors, or cauſe them to be read, till the Attention be vveary, or Memory have its full fraught: […]
- His fraught vve ſoon ſhall knovv, he novv arrives.
fraughtverb詞源 2/fɹɔːt/
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obsoletenauticaltransportTo load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
- The ſhips are ſafe thou ſaiſt, and richly fraught?
- […] I denie that the Proteſtant doth not meddle vvith theſe things, but fraughteth his ſhippe onely vvith faith, and neuer beateth his braine about ſinnes.
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archaicobsoleteTo burden or load (someone or something).
- From God these heavy cares are sent for our unrests; / And with such burdens for our wealth he fraughteth full our breasts.
- If after this command thou fraught the Court / VVith thy vnvvorthineſſe, thou dyeſt.
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archaicobsoleteFollowed by with: to furnish or provide (something).
- Therefore in ſayinge that he ſeeketh to none in heauẽ ſaue only god, he reiecteth all the counterfet Gods with which the comon errour & foly of yͤ world fraughteth heauen.
- [H]ee [Henry I of England] tooke chiefe pleaſure to reſide in his nevv Palace, vvhich himſelfe built at Oxford, both for the delight he had in learned men, himſelfe being very learned, and for the vicinity of his nevv Parke at VVoodſtocke, vvhich hee had fraught vvith all kind of ſtrange beaſts, vvherein hee much delighted, as Lyons, Leopards, Lynces, Camels, Porcupines, and the like.
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obsoletenauticaltransportTo hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
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obsoletenauticaltransportTo transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
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obsoleteTo form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.
- Had I byn any God of povver, I vvould / Have ſuncke the Sea vvithin the Earth, or ere / It ſhould the good Ship ſo haue ſvvallovv'd, and / The fraughting Soules within her.
fraughtadj詞源 2/fɹɔːt/
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obsoletenauticaltransportOf a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
- The ſhippes retyre with riches full yfraught, […]
- Theſe Shippes were fraught with men and women, and had to theyr Captayne one called Bartholoin or Partholin.
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obsoleteFollowed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
- [O]ne the other fiercely did encounter, / Like Lions two yfraught with boyling wrath, […]
- Fayre boſome fraught vvith vertues richeſt treſure, / The neaſt of loue, the lodging of delight: / the bovvre of bliſſe, the paradice of pleaſure, / the ſacred harbour of that heuenly ſpright.
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obsoleteCarrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.
- a fraught relationship a fraught process
- Nor less her son the like encouraged she / To party bitterness, that was in her, / Ev'n of the fraughtest growth that well could be, / Surpassing most of men's, […]
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obsoleteFollowed by with: furnished, provided.
- [W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
- Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, / Aboue that Idole of his fayning thought, / That all the vvorld ſhold vvith his rimes be fraught?
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