| 词组 | apprehensive |
| 释义 | apprehensive When the object of concern is a person, apprehensive takes for: • Watching these contests, I could not help feeling apprehensive for Fitzgerald, whose physical condition was precarious at best —Andrew W. Turnbull, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 1956 More frequently the preposition links apprehensive to a usually impersonal cause of concern. In such cases, a selection of prepositions is available. Of is the most common: • ... whole troops of hungry and affrighted provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine —Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1788 • ... no sooner would they stow themselves away ... than they would rush out again, as if apprehensive of some approaching danger —John Burroughs, Wake-Robin, 1871 • The violence of his temper and his reputation for cruelty had made the City apprehensive of what would happen if he succeeded his father —Robert Graves, I, Claudius, 1934 • ... made a great many people apprehensive of aggregations of more than one or two birds —Deborah Howard, Massachusetts Audubon Newsletter, December 1970 About is also quite common: • "Then she didn't seem apprehensive about what might happen here while she was away?" — S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case, 1927 • The child with an infection of the bone will probably refuse to have the arm or leg examined and will be apprehensive about having it touched —Morris Fishbein, The Popular Medical Encyclopedia, 1946 • He was apprehensive about the increase of China's influence inside the Communist world —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 30 Oct. 1971 Regarding is sometimes chosen: • ... were outspokenly apprehensive regarding its full significance—Collier's Year Book, 1949 • ... was perhaps apprehensive regarding the ultimate effect in Japan —Rodger Swearingen, Current History, July 1952 Sometimes a clause will be used instead of a phrase: • As I stood aside to let that carriage pass, apprehensive that it might otherwise run me down —Charles Dickens,^ Tale of Two Cities, 1859 • ... apprehensive lest this evacuation inspire the extreme Left to become even bolder—Collier's Year Book, 1949 |
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