fraught

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fraught /frɔːt $ frɒːt/ adjectiveadj

1 fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc full of problems etc 充满问题/困难/危险等

Their marriage has been fraught with difficulties.

他们的婚姻困难重重。

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fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc• Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.• For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.• She had had a husband and lovers older than herself, and each affair had been fraught with problems.• There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.• Thompson and Geir can agree, but their own deliverance was fraught with danger.• However, it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read?• He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers, for Bernice and for himself.

2 WORRIEDfull of anxiety or worry 焦虑不安的；非常紧张的 SYN tense

a fraught atmosphere

焦虑的氛围

a fraught situation

令人担心的形势

Julie sounded rather fraught.

朱莉的语气显得颇为忧虑。

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fraught• And the idea of establishing another racial group in this racially fraught country is extreme.• Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.• Then I reminded myself that it is fraught with disappointments.• And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression.• But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs.• Alas! the centuries are fraught with pain, and man is burdened by fear and woe.

fraught situation• Lowell's humour - unexpected - that could take the heat out of a fraught situation.• Sarah, who lived near to the Brompton Hospital, visited her father regularly although Raine's hostility complicated an already fraught situation.• The police in Ajdabiya were mostly Magharba and Zuwaya, and senior officers took care in selecting men to police fraught situations.• To learn how to cope in such fraught situations and to survive can be a broadening experience.

Origin fraught

(1300-1400) Past participle of fraught “to load, fill” ((14-19 centuries)), from Middle Dutch vracht “load”

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