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 trepidation [,trepi'deiʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 恐惧, 惊惶, 忧虑

[医] 震颤, 抖颤; 悸惧




    trepidation
    [ noun ]
    a feeling of alarm or dread
    <noun.feeling>


    Trepidation \Trep`i*da"tion\, n. [F. tr['e]pidation, L.
    trepidatio, fr. trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble,
    from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. trepit he
    turns, Gr. ? to turn, E. torture.]
    1. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of
    paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking;
    quivering.

    2. Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion;
    fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.

    3. (Anc. Astron.) A libration of the starry sphere in the
    Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to
    account for certain small changes in the position of the
    ecliptic and of the stars.

    Syn: Tremor; agitation; disturbance; fear.

    1. Wall Street analysts are waiting with some trepidation for the second-quarter earnings reports due to be issued by hundreds of companies over the next few weeks.
    2. Prospects of an equity issue were greeted with trepidation, given Lonrho's thin dividend cover. The proposed deal may centre on Lonrho's platinum operations in South Africa, where political change is felt to have created new opportunities for the group.
    3. He came back to Alaska with some trepidation and kept a low profile outside court.
    4. It should be watched with some trepidation.
    5. So why is her impending election causing such trepidation in party circles?
    6. It was with some trepidation that I entered the Ballroom's tiny theater the other night to see "The Mask, Myth and Magic of McBride."
    7. Mr. Greenspan's statement on the yen "seems to have taken most of the fear and trepidation over intervention out of the market," said Alexis McCarthy, corporate foreign exchange trader for Banque Indosuez in New York.
    8. Adds another, "My guess is that if they decided to do this again, they would do it with great trepidation."
    9. Bush's arrival for the Friday night fete was viewed with trepidation by some city officials who said it and forecast snow would create gridlock on streets mobbed with holiday shoppers.
    10. That's why budget bargainers, who are likely to cut programs that help the elderly, are exploring those reductions with all the trepidation of kids tiptoeing into an isolated, dark cave.
    11. Mr. Lowenthal says he is shorting Wells Fargo "with trepidation," because the San Francisco-based bank's management is highly regarded.
    12. With trepidation, I wish them all a happy 1995.
    13. Despite trepidation inside the bank at the time about the potential culture clash with Deutsche, Morgan has remained one of the success stories in M&A, adding an increasing involvement in Germany to its domestic UK base.
    14. Still, the two men watch events in the Middle East with trepidation.
    15. Investment bankers at leading Eurobond houses await the return of Kari Nars with some trepidation. Finland's head of treasury management has been on a three-year secondment to the EBRD, but is due back at his desk next month.
    16. Although the dollar recovered from its early Tokyo lows, the currency started European trading vulnerable to further profittaking, especially with the trepidation surrounding the West German Bundesbank's Council meeting today, traders said.
    17. 'You don't need telling times are bad,' he used to say, 'when they're firing the brothers-in-law.' I pass on his quip with some trepidation because, on recent experience, it will provoke protests.
    18. In London, dealers said there was some trepidation early in the day that the expiration of the June FT-SE 100 contract would bring a wave of volatility to the market, but this didn't prove to be the case.
    19. Zubin Mehta, music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, confessed to some "trepidation" before a joint performance by his musicians and those from a Soviet orchestra.
    20. Geoffrey Moorhouse sets out with some trepidation to cross the Sahara by himself by camel, as recounted in "The Fearful Void" (Griffin).
    21. That prospect is viewed with some trepidation by brokers and analysts.
    22. "There's no sign of any fear or trepidation as a result of what's happened so far," said Helen Suzman, long-serving Parliament member for the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party.
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