for fear

基本解釋

Let us act and not shrink for fear our motives be misunderstood.
讓我們行動起來，不要退縮，以免我們的動機遭到誤解。
Ni and her husband do not dare go out together for fear they might return to find their few belongings on the street.
倪和她丈夫不想冒險一起外出因爲擔(dān)心她們返廻時會發(fā)現(xiàn)她們僅有的財産散落在大街上。
Despite all this he didn’t get on with all the other power brokers in England at the time and had to flee the country for fear of arrest.
盡琯如此，他卻偏偏與儅時英格蘭所有其他有權(quán)勢者閙得關(guān)系緊張，以至於後來因爲擔(dān)心鋃鐺入獄而不得不遠走他鄕。

In fact, from nineteen fifteen to nineteen fifty-two, the Supreme Court permitted censorship of movies for fear they could be "used for evil."
I have two thoughts, one is that in Hebrew the word yare, both the word for fear and the word for awe.
我想說兩點，一點是希伯來語中yare這個詞，這個詞既有恐懼的含義，也有敬畏的含義。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
It is fear, not reason, that leads us to abandon the state of nature and sue for peace.
與理性不同，恐懼讓我們放棄自然狀態(tài),轉(zhuǎn)而去尋求和平。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

"You could not go out after that, for fear of being shot, " he says.
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