"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Adjective:
causing fear or dread or terror;
"the awful war"
"an awful risk"
"dire news"
"a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
"the dread presence of the headmaster"
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
"a dreadful storm"
"a fearful howling"
"horrendous explosions shook the city"
"a terrible curse"
Verb:
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;
"I fear the winters in Moscow"
"We should not fear the Communists!"
dread的用法和樣例:
例句
用作動詞 (v.)
I dread having to visit the dentist . 我害怕看牙醫。
I dread to think what will happen if she finds out the truth. 我不敢去想她知道真相後會怎麼樣。
Much of what we dread is really due to indistinctness of outline. 畏生於不明,大抵如此。