frets

英 [frets]

美 [frets]

v.  苦恼; 烦躁; 焦虑不安
n.  (吉他等指板上定音的)品; (从海上飘来的)雾气，薄雾，雾
fret的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 苦恼;烦恼;发愁
  If youfretabout something, you worry about it.
  1. I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else's problems...
     我一刻不闲地工作，总是为别人的事操心。
  2. But congressional staffers fret that the project will eventually cost billions more...
     但是国会工作人员担心这项计划最终会多耗资数十亿元。
  3. Don't fret, Mary. This is all some crazy mistake.
     不要发愁，玛丽。这只是个有些荒唐的错误。
• (吉他等弦乐器琴颈处的)品
  Thefretson a musical instrument such as a guitar are the raised lines across its neck.

双语例句

• It frets perpetually, sometimes hysterically, about threats to its economic and military supremacy.
  它始终在为其经济和军事霸权所面临的威胁烦恼，有时甚至有些歇斯底里。
• Wada frets that athletes may start improving their bodies by tinkering with their genes.
  世界反兴奋剂组织担心运动员可能会开始通过调整基因来增强自身。
• She frets away all the time when he is not at home.
  他不在家时她总在烦恼中过日子。
• Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice.
  释放你的灵魂，让它横扫生命的障碍，穿过痛苦的可怖森林，小至微细的磨折和烦恼，那么你的灵魂，也会唱出它的歌声了。
• He spends little time at the magazine and frets in some of his classes.
  他很少到杂志社去了，有时听听课也会焦躁起来。
• She explains that while her fellow students are chiefly concerned with getting a job or buying an apartment, she frets over how she can excel in her work despite having little experience of the world.
  她解释道，身边的同伴们都关心求职和买房问题，而她所烦恼的则是，如何在社会经验有限的基础上，在写作之路上再创佳绩。
• The Atlantic frets that the Murdoch model will sacrifice "responsible, serious journalism" and damage public life in the process.
  《大西洋月刊》担忧，默多克模式将牺牲负责的、严肃的新闻业，并在这一过程中损害公众生活。
• Economic indicators have surprised on the upside; the ECB frets in particular about fast-growing credit and money supply data.
  经济数据的增长令人惊讶；欧洲央行对迅速增长的信贷和货币供应数据尤为担忧。
• Every company frets over how to be better at generating ideas.
  每一家公司都为怎样才能更善于激发新想法而焦虑不已。
• Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain. Rocks weather until they are worn away.
  风吹雨打使石灰石慢慢受到侵蚀。