| 词汇 | fear the worst |
| 释义 | fear the worstfear the worst 1 EXPECTto think that the worst possible thing has happened or might happen 担心（会）发生最坏的情况 When Tom heard about the accident he immediately feared the worst. 汤姆一听说出事，就担心会发生最坏的情况。 Examples from the Corpus fear the worst• Fearing the worst, police have called in reinforcements to help control the crowds.• After I hadn't heard from him for several hours, I began to fear the worst.• I knew I was being irrational but I began to fear the worst.• Only then did we begin to fear the worst.• Rumours about impending changes will occur anyway, and staff not fully informed are likely to fear the worst.• Then they called police and stayed up all night -- fearing the worst.• Rescuers feared the worst for the men trapped in the mine.• Mind you, I feared the worst for this year's crop of pantomimes. → fear the worst at fear2(1) 2 to expect or fear that something will not be successful or something bad will happen 预期/担心最坏的事情发生，作最坏打算 When it got so late and they still weren’t home, I began to fear the worst. 天那么晚了他们还没回家，我开始担心发生了最坏的情况。 → expect/fear the worst at worst2(3) |
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