fraught

• adj. 担心的，忧虑的；充满…的

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中文词源

来自freight的拼写变体，原指船只装满货物的，满载的。后来该词用于心理学术语，指心里面装满担子的，忧虑的。

英文词源

fraught

fraught: [14] Fraught and freight [15] are related, and share the underlying meaning ‘load’. But whereas freight has stayed close to its semantic roots, fraught, which started out as ‘laden’, has moved on via ‘supplied or filled with something’ to specifically ‘filled with anxiety or tension’. It was originally the past participle of a now obsolete verb fraught ‘load a ship’, which was borrowed from Middle Dutch vrachten.

This in turn was a derivative of the noun vracht ‘load, cargo’, a variant of vrecht (from which English gets freight). Both vracht and vrecht probably go back to a prehistoric Germanic noun *fraaikhtiz, whose second element *-aikhtiz is related to English owe and own.
=> freight

fraught (adj.)

late 14c., "freighted, laden, loaded, stored with supplies" (of vessels); figurative use from early 15c.; past participle adjective from obsolete verb fraught "to load (a ship) with cargo," Middle English fraughten (c. 1400), which always was rarer than the past participle, from noun fraught "a load, cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), which is the older form of freight (n.).

This apparently is from a North Sea Germanic source, Middle Dutch vrecht, vracht "hire for a ship, freight," or similar words in Middle Low German or Frisian, apparently originally "earnings," from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz "property, absolute possession," from *fra-, here probably intensive + *aigan "be master of, possess" (see owe (v.)). Related: Fraughtage.

双语例句

1. The earliest operations employing this technique were fraught with dangers.

最早使用这种技术的手术充满了危险。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The expedition through the jungle was fraught with difficulty and danger.

穿越森林的探险充满着艰辛和危险.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. It has been a somewhat fraught day.

这是让人有些担忧的一天。

来自辞典例句

4. In this case, it is a subtle red, fraught with mystery.

如果这样的话, 这是一种充满神秘的无以名状的红色.

来自百科语句

5. The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.

未来数月将充满重大的决定.

来自辞典例句