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worrying

/wur-ee, wuhr-ee/US // ˈwɜr i, ˈwʌr i //UK // (ˈwʌrɪ) //

忧虑,忧心忡忡,担忧,堪忧

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v.无主动词 verb
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    wor·ried, wor·ry·ing.

    • : to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
    • : to move with effort: an old car worrying uphill.
v.有主动词 verb
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    wor·ried, wor·ry·ing.

    • : to torment with cares, anxieties, etc.; trouble; plague.
    • : to seize, especially by the throat, with the teeth and shake or mangle, as one animal does another.
    • : to harass by repeated biting, snapping, etc.
n.名词 noun
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    plural wor·ries.

    • : a worried condition or feeling; uneasiness or anxiety.
    • : a cause of uneasiness or anxiety; trouble.
    • : the act of worrying.
    • : Fox Hunting. the action of the hounds in tearing to pieces the carcass of a fox.
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    • : worry along / through Informal. to progress or succeed by constant effort, despite difficulty: to worry through an intolerable situation.

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Examples

  • For experts, this has long been the worry raised by such language-generating algorithms.

  • Another worry is that evidence for or against a vaccine could get twisted.

  • Notably, a lack of fiscal stimulus was a far greater concern than when we last asked the question in mid-June, although the level of worry about a second wave of coronavirus barely budged.

  • Once outside of Earth’s protective gravitational and magnetic fields, microgravity and radiation become big worries.

  • Now, says cosmologist Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, “we can proceed without the niggling worries.”

  • But it is a worrying claim nonetheless, one of many testing the boundaries of this new area of law.

  • “Recent events, especially in Iraq and Syria, are very worrying,” the pope said, according to Vatican Radio.

  • The idea that this journey is being transformed into a “pay-per-prayer” weekend, as Sardar notes, is heart wrenching and worrying.

  • “You can stop worrying about that right now,” Nesbit told him.

  • It was nearing naptime and so the three hurried to grab groceries, worrying that the baby would get fussy after too long.

  • Betty declared that she had not slept a wink the night before, worrying for fear her father had not meant what he said.

  • Cousin,” said she gravely in a little, “you are not worrying about your father, as though it may—not be well with him now?

  • Scrambling, sliding, worrying in the dimness, I finally reached the less precipitous slopes of the base of the cliff.

  • She mentioned her fears to the minister, and he said, "When she gets over worrying about Tommy, she'll pick up her crumbs."

  • The thing disturbed me so that I couldn't get any peace of mind for thinking of it and worrying over it.