1·I'm dreading Christmas this year.
我害怕今年的圣诞节。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·You know I'm really dreading the first assessment.
你知道我真的很害怕第一次评估。
3·This was the moment he had been dreading.
这是他一直最担心的时刻。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·She was dreading having to broach the subject of money to her father.
她正在为不得不向父亲提出钱的事犯愁。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·Ben Rogers hove in sight presently--the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.
不一会儿，本·罗杰斯就出现了——在所有的孩子中，他最怕的就是被他嘲弄了。
6·Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing!
总害怕会失去我的爱情。
7·Both are dreading what their mother will make of it.
兄弟俩担心的是他们母亲会怎么想。
8·Avoid dreading dead reading, read the dead ox horn.
读书忌死读，死读钻牛角。
9·We were all waiting for and dreading our notifications.
我们都在心情忐忑的等待着。
10·I'd been dreading that the birth would take a long time.
我一直十分担心分娩会花很长时间。
1·The same forces are at work when you forget to attend an appointment you've been dreading, or binge on cookies before you can reach for the celery.
当你忘记去赴一个曾经害怕的约会或者在伸手拿芹菜之前大吃特嚼饼干时，都是同样的心情在起作用。
2·If you find yourself hanging out all-too-often in cyberspace and dreading the next interview-style coffee date, you might be suffering from odf.
如果你发现你总是在网络空间里流连，却害怕下一个面试式的“咖啡”约会，那么你很有可能正患有网络交友疲劳症。
3·Finding a new job will be difficult, but is the prolonged anxiety of paying the rent any worse than dreading coming into work?
找一份新工作是很难的，但为付房租这样长时间的焦虑真的比害怕去工作更糟糕吗？
4·Dreading dragging out the decorations and pretending to love gifts you don’t really want?
害怕拖延做节日装饰，假装你很喜欢实际上并不可想要的礼物？
5·Once we arrive, we're not excited to be there and we are dreading the things we must get done.
当我们一到工作地点，就一点也没有了抵达目的地的喜悦之情，而且为之后必须要做的事感到害怕担忧。
1·As the aftershocks continue through the night—not to mention the phantom shocks that people mistakenly feel—everyone is dreading tomorrow's news.
排除人们的错觉，随着整夜余震的不断，人们都对明天的消息感到恐惧。
2·Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life.
绝大多数人在生活中恐惧外伤的经历，而畸形人出生时就带着外伤，他们已经通过了这个关于生活的检验。