Burnt bairns dread the fire.

[苏谚] 一朝被火灼, 见火就害怕; 一朝被蛇咬, 三年怕井绳。

“I dread to come to the end of the year,” said a friend to me recently; “it makes me realize I am growing old”.

“我很担心，一年又将逝去了，”最近，一个朋友这样对我说:“这让我觉得自己又老了一岁。”

Amy, too, had a dear child named Beth, but she was a frail little creature and the dread of losing her was the shadow over Amy’s sunshine.

艾米也有一个可爱的孩子取名贝思,但她是个纤弱的小东西,担心失掉她变成艾米幸福中的一个阴影。

Nevertheless, it is a claim that can be sustained and if compassion animates those who urge the abolition of the death penalty it is not a sentimental compassion for the mental agony inflicted upon a condemned man but a dread of destroying the miracle of life.

不过，如果主张废除死刑者不是出于一种对死刑犯精神极度痛苦有感情上的怜悯，而是害怕毁掉生命奇迹的话，这种论点还是能够站住脚的。

The highest and most lofty tress have the most reason to dread the thunder.

参天之木，须防雷击。

Most people dread death.

大部分的人都怕死。

The sea is a path meet for swift ships that traverse the brine, but bulls dread the salt sea ways

大海是来往于咸水之中的快艇的运动场，不是牡牛行走的地方。

When, however, Ustinov is asked if he minds being saddled with the dread tag of “Renaissance Man”, he is as ready as ever with a sharp riposte “I didn’t think I was as old as that!”

但是，当有人问他是不是不喜欢套上(文艺复兴时期)“多才多艺的人”这样一个令人敬畏的招牌时，他像往常一样立即机敏地答道:“我从前可没想到自己有那么的古老。”

deep-set dread of debt

对负债的恐惧

And there is the dread of the unknown, above all, the awful fear of hellfire

而且还有对未知的恐惧;尤其是对于炼狱的惧怕。

Moreover, it was more merciful to launch the condemned man into eternity twenty-four hours after he was sentenced than to keep him shivering on the brink of that dread gulf for nearly three weeks.

而且判死刑后24小时就执行要比3周内让他一直在死亡边缘发抖更为仁慈。

Feeling reverence, dread , or awe.

感到尊敬,害怕或崇拜的.

have a dread of speaking in public

害怕在大众面前讲话

The power to inspire dread .

唤起恐惧的权势

We all dread to think what will happen if the factory closes.

假如工厂关闭可怎麽办,我们想及此事都不寒而栗.

Gradually, I found a force to overcome this feeling of dread : It was the moon, the moonlight; Or a ray of light just like the moonshine; Eyes and lips just like the moons; Or a man’s back, beaming just like the moon.

渐渐的,我找到了对付这种恐惧的力量,那就是月亮,月光;或者像月光一样的光线;像月光一样的眼睛,嘴唇;或者像月光一样的男人的背。

She confessed to(having)a dread of spiders.

她承认她害怕蜘蛛.

She was not actually nervous about the wild beast, but she had a morbid dread of performing an atom more service than she had been paid for

她倒并非真正害怕那野兽，而是绝对不愿多做一点没有报酬的事。

Her eyes fixed on him with the inquiring look that he had come to dread

她的眼光正带着探问的神色在盯着他，这是使他变得畏惧的眼光。

She grew to have a dread of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman, gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child.

她对孩子们渐生畏惧之心,因为他们从父母那里摄取到一种模模糊糊的概念;这个除去一个小孩之外从无伴侣、在镇上蹈踊独行的可怕的女人,身上有着某种骇人之处。

She has a dread of hospitals.

她害怕医院.

She has a dread of snakes.

她惧怕蛇。

As by a common consent, they both avoided, with fear and dread , all mention of the horrible man who was now their master

她们仿佛有默契似的，彼此都怀着恐惧的心情，绝口不提那个恶人，她们眼前的这个东家。

So spake she, and the horned bull made answer to her again: Take courage, maiden, and dread not the swell of the deep

她说完这些话，那长了角的牡牛回答道:鼓起勇气，姑娘，不要害怕大海的波滔。

Her dread of being home alone made her extremely nervous.

她一个人回家的恐惧使她异常胆怯。

to live in constant dread of poverty

经常担忧贫穷

Cats dread water.

猫怕水。

but man, on the contrary, loathes the idea of blood--it is not alone that the laws of social life inspire him with a shrinking dread of taking life

那就是它的本能，它在按本能行事,但人却正相反，人是怕见血的。

Do you dread a visit to the dentist?

你害怕去看牙医吗?

Do you dread having a tooth pulled out?

你很害怕拔牙吗?

dread death

n.怕死

in dread of

prep.害怕,担心

dread change

n.担心有变

be in dread of

vt.害怕

dread the grave

怕死

dread death of insecurity

n.对不安全的担忧

dread punishment for one’s crime

畏罪