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词汇 apprehension
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Definition of apprehension in English:

apprehension

noun aprɪˈhɛnʃ(ə)nˌæprəˈhɛnʃən
mass noun
  • 1Anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

    忧虑,担心;恐惧,疑惧

    he felt sick with apprehension

    他因忧心忡忡而感觉难受。

    count noun she had some apprehensions about the filming

    对于拍电影她有点儿担忧。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the friendly, welcoming workforce soon dispelled any apprehensions that young, spotty apprentices such as I ever had.
    • I had some apprehensions the night before, and some concerns as they prepped me, and started to put me out.
    • All these concerns, apprehensions, fears and coercions can be rationally addressed.
    • The complacent frivolity of its lavish mosaics suggests that the declining Roman empire had no apprehensions of imminent fall.
    • Today's investment climate is filled with apprehensions.
    • Some write more openly about their fears, apprehensions and emotions.
    • There were a lot of apprehensions about the future.
    • The presence of the security forces personnel created apprehensions among the villagers and they took refuge in a nearby ground.
    • When I told her of my current apprehensions she encouraged me to continue forward, acknowledging that it can be tough.
    • The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.
    • Her heart immediately picked up speed as all the fears and apprehensions from earlier in the day came back full force.
    • Going back to the Florida homeowner's apprehensions, her first concern was the bedroom arrangement.
    • The company that has ‘all the time in the world’ had its own apprehensions before it decided to embark on this novel competition.
    • And they have done it primarily by heightening and exploiting public anxieties and apprehensions.
    • I had apprehensions of going to the workshop but after day one I felt very cool and could manage things.
    • She allowed her apprehensions to make a prisoner of her in her own home.
    • There will be no one who is able to respond sympathetically to his innermost fears and apprehensions.
    • And it has ever since aroused serious apprehensions and complaints from the work units and a residential community nearby.
    • It is hard to face your fears and apprehensions; people will understand and tell you not to worry.
    • And though this screen migration might be a good thing for some, it comes with a fair share of apprehensions, for others.
    Synonyms
    anxiety, angst, alarm, worry, uneasiness, unease, nervousness, misgiving, disquiet, concern, agitation, restlessness, edginess, fidgetiness, nerves, tension, trepidation, perturbation, consternation, panic, fearfulness, dread, fear, shock, horror, terror
    foreboding, presentiment
    informal butterflies in the stomach, the willies, the heebie-jeebies
  • 2Understanding; grasp.

    理解;领悟

    his first apprehension of such large issues

    他对这种重大事情的第一次领悟。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consciousness requires the simultaneous apprehension in one's mind of multiple sensory features pertaining to a single scene or object.
    • The goal of science is the effective human apprehension and comprehension of nature.
    • Poetry, music, art - these among others are vehicles that try to render the ineffable into some degree of conscious apprehension and communication.
    • Because interpretation is as much grounded in emotional apprehension as it is in cognitive reflection, we interpret by default as well as by design.
    • The knowledge, then, is transformed either through intention or extension and grasped either by comprehension or apprehension.
    • The new cinema recognizes that any apprehension of the present is predicated upon an understanding of the past.
    • This attitude, understandable though it is, hinders our apprehension of reality.
    • The bridge between the disparate realms of knowledge and faith was an intuitive mode of perception or apprehension called Ahnung.
    • One is through sense perception and the other through a direct sort of apprehension of existence.
    • It is a kind of gnosis, or direct apprehension of truth, which deepens over time and eventually reaches full maturity in the complete awakening experienced by the Buddha.
    • For her, the aim of painting is toward the sensate apprehension of exuberant experience.
    • But the perceptions of the senses are a low form of apprehension.
    • She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.
    • Experiences are grasped through either apprehension or comprehension.
    • The latter requires some sort of acquaintance with, or apprehension of, objects like numbers.
    • The former is an immanent unity consisting of sensations and the perceptual apprehension.
    • In no-mind the world simply is, in it's purest state of pre-linguistic apprehension.
    • He hadn't seen any recognition or apprehension in her lovely eyes, but still, there had been something there…
    • This helps in no way at all to prove that such experience is direct apprehension of God and helps in no way to support the existential claim ‘God exists’.
    • Wisdom is the pure non-verbal apprehension of All.
    Synonyms
    understanding, grasp, comprehension, realization, recognition, appreciation, discernment, perception, awareness, cognizance, consciousness, penetration
  • 3The action of arresting someone.

    逮捕

    they acted with intent to prevent lawful apprehension

    他们蓄意阻止合法逮捕。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Authorities made the apprehensions for immigration law violations, not sex crimes.
    • If this Court accepts that section 38 is applicable, then it is not a reasonable suspicion or reasonable grounds of apprehension giving rise to the arrest.
    • In some places, like the Arizona desert, apprehensions are up more than 50 percent.
    • In the case of police dogs that propensity is put to a socially useful purpose, the apprehension of persons reasonably suspected of having committed arrestable offences.
    • There is no doubt that ultimately that may include the issue of warrants for their physical apprehension which will be executed by officers of the South Australian executive.
    • A warrant of arrest issued for the accused's apprehension.
    • How public was the juvenile's arrest, apprehension, or the incident that landed the juvenile in the public eye?
    • Right now we're faced with nearly a million apprehensions by the border patrol a year.
    • His testimony takes various forms: an interview with a journalist in South America before his apprehension; memoirs and evidence at his trial.
    • A protection finding is based upon the situation that existed at the time of apprehension and not at any later date.
    • Such apprehension occurred under escort of four police officers and at which time D.C. made threats to the workers.
    • The range of reasonable apprehension is at times a question for the court, and at times, if varying inferences are possible a question for the jury.
    • Now, we say, your Honour, against us there is a frozen case based on the circumstances at apprehension.
    • He should have been serving a sentence now and he has avoided apprehension.
    • The protection finding is based upon the situation that existed at the time of apprehension and not the date of trial.
    • Section 18 requires an intention to do grievous bodily harm or an intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer or any person.
    • Southern border apprehensions are up 14 percent so far this fiscal year.
    • In the first 18 months of diversion's operation there were 2196 apprehensions in the Territory.
    Synonyms
    arrest, capture, seizure, catching
    detention, imprisonment, incarceration
    informal collaring, nabbing, nailing, pinching, bust, busting
    British informal nick

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'learning, acquisition of knowledge'): from late Latin apprehensio(n-), from apprehendere 'seize, grasp' (see apprehend).

Rhymes

abstention, ascension, attention, circumvention, comprehension, condescension, contention, contravention, convention, declension, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, intention, intervention, invention, mention, misapprehension, obtention, pension, prehension, prevention, recension, retention, subvention, supervention, suspension, tension

Definition of apprehension in US English:

apprehension

nounˌaprəˈhenSHənˌæprəˈhɛnʃən
  • 1Anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

    忧虑,担心;恐惧,疑惧

    he felt sick with apprehension

    他因忧心忡忡而感觉难受。

    she had some apprehensions about the filming

    对于拍电影她有点儿担忧。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There will be no one who is able to respond sympathetically to his innermost fears and apprehensions.
    • But the friendly, welcoming workforce soon dispelled any apprehensions that young, spotty apprentices such as I ever had.
    • And they have done it primarily by heightening and exploiting public anxieties and apprehensions.
    • I had apprehensions of going to the workshop but after day one I felt very cool and could manage things.
    • When I told her of my current apprehensions she encouraged me to continue forward, acknowledging that it can be tough.
    • And it has ever since aroused serious apprehensions and complaints from the work units and a residential community nearby.
    • All these concerns, apprehensions, fears and coercions can be rationally addressed.
    • Today's investment climate is filled with apprehensions.
    • She allowed her apprehensions to make a prisoner of her in her own home.
    • Her heart immediately picked up speed as all the fears and apprehensions from earlier in the day came back full force.
    • The complacent frivolity of its lavish mosaics suggests that the declining Roman empire had no apprehensions of imminent fall.
    • The company that has ‘all the time in the world’ had its own apprehensions before it decided to embark on this novel competition.
    • There were a lot of apprehensions about the future.
    • I had some apprehensions the night before, and some concerns as they prepped me, and started to put me out.
    • It is hard to face your fears and apprehensions; people will understand and tell you not to worry.
    • And though this screen migration might be a good thing for some, it comes with a fair share of apprehensions, for others.
    • Some write more openly about their fears, apprehensions and emotions.
    • Going back to the Florida homeowner's apprehensions, her first concern was the bedroom arrangement.
    • The presence of the security forces personnel created apprehensions among the villagers and they took refuge in a nearby ground.
    • The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.
    Synonyms
    anxiety, angst, alarm, worry, uneasiness, unease, nervousness, misgiving, disquiet, concern, agitation, restlessness, edginess, fidgetiness, nerves, tension, trepidation, perturbation, consternation, panic, fearfulness, dread, fear, shock, horror, terror
  • 2Understanding; grasp.

    理解;领悟

    the pure apprehension of the work of art
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The new cinema recognizes that any apprehension of the present is predicated upon an understanding of the past.
    • The bridge between the disparate realms of knowledge and faith was an intuitive mode of perception or apprehension called Ahnung.
    • The goal of science is the effective human apprehension and comprehension of nature.
    • This attitude, understandable though it is, hinders our apprehension of reality.
    • For her, the aim of painting is toward the sensate apprehension of exuberant experience.
    • He hadn't seen any recognition or apprehension in her lovely eyes, but still, there had been something there…
    • Because interpretation is as much grounded in emotional apprehension as it is in cognitive reflection, we interpret by default as well as by design.
    • This helps in no way at all to prove that such experience is direct apprehension of God and helps in no way to support the existential claim ‘God exists’.
    • The latter requires some sort of acquaintance with, or apprehension of, objects like numbers.
    • Wisdom is the pure non-verbal apprehension of All.
    • But the perceptions of the senses are a low form of apprehension.
    • Consciousness requires the simultaneous apprehension in one's mind of multiple sensory features pertaining to a single scene or object.
    • It is a kind of gnosis, or direct apprehension of truth, which deepens over time and eventually reaches full maturity in the complete awakening experienced by the Buddha.
    • In no-mind the world simply is, in it's purest state of pre-linguistic apprehension.
    • The former is an immanent unity consisting of sensations and the perceptual apprehension.
    • She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.
    • The knowledge, then, is transformed either through intention or extension and grasped either by comprehension or apprehension.
    • Experiences are grasped through either apprehension or comprehension.
    • Poetry, music, art - these among others are vehicles that try to render the ineffable into some degree of conscious apprehension and communication.
    • One is through sense perception and the other through a direct sort of apprehension of existence.
    Synonyms
    understanding, grasp, comprehension, realization, recognition, appreciation, discernment, perception, awareness, cognizance, consciousness, penetration
  • 3The action of arresting someone.

    逮捕

    they acted with intent to prevent lawful apprehension

    他们蓄意阻止合法逮捕。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the first 18 months of diversion's operation there were 2196 apprehensions in the Territory.
    • How public was the juvenile's arrest, apprehension, or the incident that landed the juvenile in the public eye?
    • Section 18 requires an intention to do grievous bodily harm or an intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer or any person.
    • In some places, like the Arizona desert, apprehensions are up more than 50 percent.
    • Such apprehension occurred under escort of four police officers and at which time D.C. made threats to the workers.
    • Authorities made the apprehensions for immigration law violations, not sex crimes.
    • He should have been serving a sentence now and he has avoided apprehension.
    • His testimony takes various forms: an interview with a journalist in South America before his apprehension; memoirs and evidence at his trial.
    • In the case of police dogs that propensity is put to a socially useful purpose, the apprehension of persons reasonably suspected of having committed arrestable offences.
    • Southern border apprehensions are up 14 percent so far this fiscal year.
    • The range of reasonable apprehension is at times a question for the court, and at times, if varying inferences are possible a question for the jury.
    • Now, we say, your Honour, against us there is a frozen case based on the circumstances at apprehension.
    • If this Court accepts that section 38 is applicable, then it is not a reasonable suspicion or reasonable grounds of apprehension giving rise to the arrest.
    • There is no doubt that ultimately that may include the issue of warrants for their physical apprehension which will be executed by officers of the South Australian executive.
    • A protection finding is based upon the situation that existed at the time of apprehension and not at any later date.
    • A warrant of arrest issued for the accused's apprehension.
    • Right now we're faced with nearly a million apprehensions by the border patrol a year.
    • The protection finding is based upon the situation that existed at the time of apprehension and not the date of trial.
    Synonyms
    arrest, capture, seizure, catching

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘learning, acquisition of knowledge’): from late Latin apprehensio(n-), from apprehendere ‘seize, grasp’ (see apprehend).

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