fraught

• adj. 擔心的，憂慮的；充滿…的

來自freight的拚寫變體，原指船隻裝滿貨物的，滿載的。後來該詞用於心理學術語，指心裏麵裝滿擔子的，憂慮的。

fraught

fraught: [14] Fraught and freight [15] are related, and share the underlying meaning ‘load’. But whereas freight has stayed close to its semantic roots, fraught, which started out as ‘laden’, has moved on via ‘supplied or filled with something’ to specifically ‘filled with anxiety or tension’. It was originally the past participle of a now obsolete verb fraught ‘load a ship’, which was borrowed from Middle Dutch vrachten.

This in turn was a derivative of the noun vracht ‘load, cargo’, a variant of vrecht (from which English gets freight). Both vracht and vrecht probably go back to a prehistoric Germanic noun *fraaikhtiz, whose second element *-aikhtiz is related to English owe and own.
=> freight

fraught (adj.)

late 14c., "freighted, laden, loaded, stored with supplies" (of vessels); figurative use from early 15c.; past participle adjective from obsolete verb fraught "to load (a ship) with cargo," Middle English fraughten (c. 1400), which always was rarer than the past participle, from noun fraught "a load, cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), which is the older form of freight (n.).

This apparently is from a North Sea Germanic source, Middle Dutch vrecht, vracht "hire for a ship, freight," or similar words in Middle Low German or Frisian, apparently originally "earnings," from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz "property, absolute possession," from *fra-, here probably intensive + *aigan "be master of, possess" (see owe (v.)). Related: Fraughtage.

1. The earliest operations employing this technique were fraught with dangers.

最早使用這種技術的手術充滿了危險。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The expedition through the jungle was fraught with difficulty and danger.

穿越森林的探險充滿著艱辛和危險.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. It has been a somewhat fraught day.

這是讓人有些擔憂的一天。

來自辭典例句

4. In this case, it is a subtle red, fraught with mystery.

如果這樣的話, 這是一種充滿神秘的無以名狀的紅色.

來自百科語句

5. The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.

未來數月將充滿重大的決定.

來自辭典例句