fear

詳細解釋：

fear

n.（名詞）

A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
憂慮感：因危險的出現或迫近而產生的不安或焦慮的情緒
A state or condition marked by this feeling:
憂慮：此種情緒的狀態或情況：
例句：
living in fear.
生活在憂慮之中

A feeling of disquiet or apprehension:
擔心：不安靜或憂慮的情緒：
例句：
a fear of looking foolish.
擔心看起來愚蠢

Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a supreme power.
敬畏，懼怕：對最高力量極端的尊敬與崇拜
A reason for dread or apprehension:
害怕或不安的原因：
例句：
Being alone is my greatest fear.
我最怕一個人獨處

v.（動詞）
feared,fear.ing,fears
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To be afraid or frightened of.
害怕，驚嚇
To be uneasy or apprehensive about:
為…擔心，為…不安：
例句：
feared the test results.
為考試結果擔心

To be in awe of; revere.
害怕；尊敬
To consider probable; expect:
恐怕：認為可能；希望：
例句：
I fear you are wrong. I fear I have bad news for you.
我認為你錯了。恐怕我有個壞訊息給你

Archaic To feel fear within (oneself).
【古語】 內心恐懼
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To be afraid.
害怕
To be uneasy or apprehensive.
擔心：心神不安；憂慮

來源：
Middle English fer
中古英文 fer
from Old English fôr [danger, sudden calamity] * see per- 3
源自 古英文 fôr [危險，突然的不幸] *參見 per- 3

【引伸】
fear.er
n.（名詞）
<參考辭彙><同義詞>fear,fright,dread,terror,horror,panic,alarm,dismay,consternation,trepidationThese nouns all denote the agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
這些名詞都含有因危險的出現或迫近而引起的不安和焦慮之意。
Fear is the most general term:
Fear 是最常見的詞 ：
例句：
fear of change;
害怕變化；

例句：
fear of flying;
害怕飛行；

例句：
fear of death.
怕死。

例句：
.Fear is the parent of cruelty. (J.A. Froude).
.恐懼是殘忍之母. (J·A·弗洛伊德）。

Fright is sudden, usually momentary fear characterized by great agitation:
Fright 是伴有極大不安的突然，通常是暫時的恐懼：
例句：
In her fright she forgot to lock the door.
她因害怕而忘記了鎖門。

Dread is strong fear of something impending, especially of what one is powerless to avoid:
Dread 是對某種逼近的東西的強烈恐懼，特指那些人無力避免的：
例句：
He looked forward with dread to the scheduled surgery.
他滿懷恐懼地等待著日程內的手術。

Terror is intense, overpowering fear:
Terror 是強烈的、無法抗拒的恐懼：
例句：
.the weapon which most readily conquers reason: terror and violence. (Adolf Hitler).
.準備好了要壓倒理性的武器：恐懼和暴力. （阿爾道夫·希特勒）。

Horror is a combination of fear and aversion or repugnance:
Horror 是恐懼與厭惡、反感的混合：
例句：
Murder arouses widespread horror.
謀殺引起了廣泛的恐懼。

Panic is sudden frantic fear, often groundless:
Panic 是突然狂亂的恐懼，通常是沒有根據的：
例句：
The fire caused a panic among the horses.
火災引起了馬群的驚慌。

例句：
Rumors of the President`s illness resulted in panic on the world stock markets.
關於總統病情的流言引起了世界股票市場的恐慌。

Alarm is fright aroused by the first realization of danger:
Alarm 是已意識到危險時引起的恐慌：
例句：
I watched with alarm as the current carried the raft and its passengers toward the dam.
我驚恐地看著激流帶著小木筏和乘客沖向水壩。

Dismay is apprehension that robs one of courage or the power to act effectively:
Dismay 指使某人失去勇氣或進行有效行動力量的恐慌：
例句：
The appearance of a comet caused universal dismay in the ancient world.
在古代，彗星的出現引起普遍的恐慌。

Consternation is a state of often paralyzing dismay characterized by confusion and helplessness:
Consternation 通常指伴有混亂和無助等特點的癱瘓性恐慌狀態：
例句：
Consternation spread throughout the city as the invading army approached.
當侵略軍逼近時恐慌蔓延了整個城市。

Trepidation is dread characteristically marked by trembling or hesitancy:
Trepidation 是帶有顫抖和猶豫特點的恐懼：
例句：
.They were . . . full of trepidation about things that were never likely to happen. (John Morley).
.他們對那些從不曾想過會發生的事情充滿了恐懼. （約翰·莫利）

<注釋>Old Englishfôr, the ancestor of our word fear, meant .calamity, disaster,.but not the emotion engendered by such an event.This is in line with the meaning of the prehistoric Common Germanic word.fôraz, .danger,. which is the source of words with similar senses in other Germanic languages,such as Old Saxon and Old High Germanf3r, .ambush, danger,. and Old Icelandic f3r, .treachery, damage.. Scholars, in fact, have determined the form and meaning of Germanic.fôraz by working backward from the forms and the meanings of its descendants. The most important cause of the change of meaning in the wordfear was probably the existence in Old English of the related verb fôran, which meant .to terrify, take by surprise.. Fear is first recorded in Middle English with the sense .emotion of fear. in a work composed around 290.
古英文fôr 是 fear 的前身， 意為.不幸，災難.，而不是因不幸或災難引起的情緒。這符合史前普通日耳曼詞feraz 的意思.危險的.， 是其他日耳曼語言中有相近意思的詞的起源，如古撒克遜語和古高地德文far， .埋伏，危險，.和古冰島語 far .挖掘，破壞.。 事實上，學者們已經通過對它的衍生詞的形式和意思的反向研究決定德文feraz 的形式和意思。 引起詞語fear 變化的最重要原因可能是古英文中相關動詞 fôran的存在， 意為.害怕，被驚奇抓住。. Fear 第一次在中世紀英文作為.害怕的情緒.被記錄下來是在一部約290年左右創作的作品中