apprehensive• Twenty minutes in his company had left Merrill feeling stretched and apprehensive.• I must admit that before my baby was born I was very apprehensive about motherhood.• No one need be apprehensive about their personalsafety; everything is under control.• Afterward the architectsagreed that they had been very apprehensive about what it would look like.• What were the neighbors and zoningboardapprehensive about?• And she felt just as apprehensive as she always did here.• Although a little apprehensive at first of steering such a large boat, we settled into it remarkably quickly.• Anne waved her off, watching, nervous and apprehensive, from the upstairs window.• Dr Gottlieb reassuresapprehensivepatients that the operation is a simpleprocedure.• The Secret Service gets apprehensive when people even walk on this part of the colonnade.
apprehensive that• They were deeply involved in the welfare of their families - apprehensive that something might go wrong.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, feel, look, seem, sound焦慮不安;感到憂心忡忡;看上去憂慮;好像很擔心;聽起來很擔心▸➤become, get, grow開始憂心忡忡;變得擔憂;變得忐忑不安▸➤remain仍然焦慮不安▸➤make sb使某人焦慮不安◇The long delay had made me quite apprehensive.長時間的耽擱使我相當焦慮。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常擔心▸➤deeply (especially BrE) 深感憂慮▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些憂慮PREPOSITION➤about對⋯感到擔心◇She was extremely apprehensive about her future.她對未來感到非常擔心。➤of擔心⋯◇He was rather apprehensive of failure.他相當害怕失敗。