for fear

常见例句

双语例句

• Let us act and not shrink for fear our motives be misunderstood.
  让我们行动起来，不要退缩，以免我们的动机遭到误解。
• Ni and her husband do not dare go out together for fear they might return to find their few belongings on the street.
  倪和她丈夫不想冒险一起外出因为担心她们返回时会发现她们仅有的财产散落在大街上。
• Despite all this he didn’t get on with all the other power brokers in England at the time and had to flee the country for fear of arrest.
  尽管如此，他却偏偏与当时英格兰所有其他有权势者闹得关系紧张，以至于后来因为担心锒铛入狱而不得不远走他乡。

原声例句

• In fact, from nineteen fifteen to nineteen fifty-two, the Supreme Court permitted censorship of movies for fear they could be "used for evil."
• I have two thoughts, one is that in Hebrew the word yare, both the word for fear and the word for awe.
  我想说两点，一点是希伯来语中yare这个词，这个词既有恐惧的含义，也有敬畏的含义。
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• It is fear, not reason, that leads us to abandon the state of nature and sue for peace.
  与理性不同，恐惧让我们放弃自然状态,转而去寻求和平。
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权威例句

• "You could not go out after that, for fear of being shot, " he says.
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• He also exited long- and medium-term bonds for fear that rising rates would zap them.
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• Or resist selling through new distribution channels for fear of upsetting old distribution lines?
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