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為擔心她們返回時會發(fā)現(xiàn)她們僅有的財產(chǎn)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.
盡管如此，他卻偏偏與當時英格蘭所有其他有權勢者鬧得關系緊張，以至于后來因為擔心鋃鐺入獄而不得不遠走他鄉(xiāng)。

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),轉而去尋求和平。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選

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