fraught
Word family adjectivefraughtnounfraughtage
fraught /frɔːt $ frɒːt/ adjectiveadj 1 fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc full of problems etc 充满问题/困难/危险等 Their marriage has been fraught with difficulties. 他们的婚姻困难重重。
fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc• Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.• For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.• She had had a husband and lovers older than herself, and each affair had been fraught with problems.• There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.• Thompson and Geir can agree, but their own deliverance was fraught with danger.• However, it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read?• He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers, for Bernice and for himself. 2 WORRIEDfull of anxiety or worry 焦虑不安的;非常紧张的 SYN tense a fraught atmosphere 焦虑的氛围
a fraught situation 令人担心的形势
Julie sounded rather fraught. 朱莉的语气显得颇为忧虑。
Origin fraught (1300-1400) Past participle of fraught “to load, fill” ((14-19 centuries)), from Middle Dutch vracht “load”