fraught
fraught 英 [frɔ:t] 美 [frɔt]
adj. 担心的，忧虑的；充满…的
a situation fraught with danger 充满危险的局面
She looked fraught. 她愁容满面；她的话音显出忧虑。
- Fraught means filled with something — often something bad. Your Thanksgiving was fraught with awkward moments when your family saw your blue hair, and it only got worse when you told them you'd quit law school to join the circus.
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- adj. 担心的，忧虑的；充满…的
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1. a situation fraught with danger
充满危险的局面
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2. She looked fraught.
她愁容满面；她的话音显出忧虑。
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3. There was a fraught silence.
有一阵令人焦虑的沉默。
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4. Things are as fraught as ever in the office.
办公室的情况和往常一样令人担心。
- fraught (adj.) late 14c., "freighted, laden, loaded, stored with supplies" (of vessels); figurative use from early 15c.; past-participle adjective from obsolete verb fraught "to load (a ship) with cargo," Middle English fraughten (c. 1400), which always was rarer than the past participle, from noun fraught "a load, cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), which is the older form of freight (n.).
fraught / frɔːt ; NAmE frɔːt / adjective 1 fraughtwith sth filled with sth unpleasant 充满（不愉快事物）的 ◆ a situation fraught with danger/difficulty/problems 充满危险╱困难重重╱问题成堆的局面 2 ( especially BrE) causing or feeling worry and anxiety 焦虑的；忧虑的；担心的 SYN tense ◆ She looked/sounded fraught. 她愁容满面；她的话音显出忧虑。 ◆ There was a fraught silence. 有一阵令人焦虑的沉默。 ◆ Things are as fraught as ever in the office. 办公室的情况和往常一样令人担心。 fraught / frɔːt ; NAmE frɔːt /
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