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A misgiving is a quiet bad feeling about what might happen, or about whether something is right — doubt mixed with a little fear, not panic and not a proven fact. You have misgivings before you sign, before you get in the car, before you trust a plan. The feeling sits in the body as : something in you says no, even if you cannot yet prove why. Though actually, English speakers use the plural most of the time: I have misgivings, not I have a misgiving, unless they mean one clear doubt. It is a little formal; in chat people say I'm not sure or I've got a bad feeling. It is not the same as guilt after the act. Misgivings come before, or while you are still choosing.
疑慮、不安（心裡覺得不對勁）
組成From the verb misgive (mis- + give). Here give is an older sense: to suggest something to the mind, to send a feeling inward — related to given and to 'what gives?'. So the heart 'gives' you a wrong or uneasy signal.
同家族的字
- givein the old sense 'to suggest to the mind', not 'to hand over a present'
原始詞典資料1 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。
misgivingnoun/mɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ/
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Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
- He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.
- In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
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。