misgiving

英语

词源

源自misgive，源自mis- +‎ give，源自中古英語 give (“暗示，给予”)。对比given和what gives。

名词

misgiving (複數 misgivings)

1. 不安，忧虑，忧愁
   • 1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:

     He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.

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   • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:

     In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.

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   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson & E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:

     Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.

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用法说明

几乎总是用复数形。

近义词

• doubt
• 参见Thesaurus:apprehension

延伸阅读

• “misgiving”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “misgiving”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.