首页英语词典lestlest英英释意

lest

英[lest] 美[lɛst]
  • conj. 唯恐,以免;担心

英英释意


1. for fear that;
"she tiptoed lest her mother should hear her"
2. that (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.);
"he worried lest he should be late"