FRIGHTENEDa feeling of anxiety or fear about something that is going to happen 惊恐,惊惶,不安
With some trepidation, I opened the door.
我有些惴惴不安地打开了门。
Examples from the Corpus
trepidation• Some of this apparenttrepidation is due to overwhelmingselfcriticism of the proposal.• I open my home with some trepidation and humility.• It was a day that should rightly be viewed with some trepidation, but not in the time of Amos.• It was with some trepidation that I slid a 5-poundchicken with peeled, quarteredpotatoes into the 500-degreeoven.• I threw in my entiresavings toward the down-payment and, with trepidation, agreed to manage the building.• When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.
Origintrepidation
(1400-1500)Latintrepidatio, from trepidare“to shake”