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live in dread of something/doing something
phrase(alsolive in dread that)
to be worried that something will happen that you really do not want to happen:
I live in dread of bumping into her in the street.我每天都害怕在街上碰见她。
Writers live in dread of rejections.
They live in dread that the media will find out and they will be besieged by press.
Many have fled the polluted area, and those who stay live in dread of falling ill.
They lived in dread of a knock on the door from bailiffs.
We live in dread that one of us will be transferred to a site hundreds of miles from home.
See also
dreadnoun(FEAR)
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