apprehensive
英 [æprɪ'hensɪv]
美 [,æprɪ'hɛnsɪv]
英語の語源
- apprehensive (adj.)
- late 14c., "capable of perceiving, fitted for mental impression," from Medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehensus, past participle of apprehendere (see apprehend). Meaning "fearful of what is to come" is recorded from 1718, via notion of "capable of grasping with the mind" (c. 1600). Related: Apprehensively; apprehensiveness.
例文
- 1. People are still terribly apprehensive about the future.
- 人々は将来について依然として非常に心配している。
- 2.I was a little apprehensive about the effects of what I had said.
- 私は私の言ったことの結果を少し心配しています。
- 3.He was rather apprehensive of failure.
- 彼は失敗をかなり恐れている。
- 4.She was deeply apprehensive about her future.
- 彼女は未来を非常に心配している。
- 5.The long delay had made me quite apprehensive .
- 長時間の遅延にかなり焦りました。
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