misgiving
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自misgive[1]，源自mis- + give，源自中古英語 give (「暗示，給予」)。對比given和what gives。
名詞[編輯]
misgiving (複數 misgivings)
- 不安，憂慮，憂愁
- 1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
- He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.
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- 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
- In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
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- 1960 March, J. P. Wilson & E. N. C. Haywood, 「The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One」, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 149:
- Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.
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用法說明[編輯]
幾乎總是用複數形。
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參考資料[編輯]
延伸閱讀[編輯]
- 「misgiving」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- 「misgiving」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587