doubt n. 1.懷疑;疑惑,疑問。 2.〔常 pl.〕 疑懼。 a shadow of doubt 有一點懷疑。 have grave doubts about 對…有嚴重懷疑。 beyond [past] (all) doubt 毫無疑問〔常用作插入語〕。 give sb. the benefit of the doubt 對某人可疑處給與善意的解釋,在證據(jù)不足時先假定某人是無辜的。 hang in doubt 懸而未決 (His life hangs in doubt. 他的死活難以預(yù)料)。 in doubt 1. 感到疑心,拿不準。 2. 被懷疑,懸而未決 (His appointment to the position is still in doubt. 任命他擔(dān)任那項職務(wù)還沒有決定)。 make no doubt of 毫不懷疑,確信。 no doubt 1. 無疑地。 2. 〔口語〕很可能。 throw [cast] doubt upon 對…產(chǎn)生懷疑。 without (a) doubt無疑,的的確確。 vt. 1.疑,懷疑;不信,拿不準〔后接名詞從句時,肯定句用 whether, if, when, what 等,否定句及疑問句用 that, but, but that , 肯定句用 that 往往表示非常懷疑〕。 I doubt whether [if] he was there. 我拿不準他在不在那里。 I do not doubt (but) that he was there. 我相信他在那里。 I doubt that he will be there. 我不相信他會到那里去[我看他多半不會去了]。 doubt the truth of the story 對那番話的真實性有懷疑。 2.〔古、方〕怕,恐怕。 I doubt they will be too strong for us. 我怕敵不過他們。 vi. 懷疑,不信 (about of)。 He doubted of the importance of honesty. 他不相信誠實有多么重要。 adj. -able 可疑的,令人懷疑的。 adv. -ably 可疑地。 n. -er 懷疑者。 adj. -ing 懷疑心重的,惴惴不安的 (doubting Thomas 疑心重的人,多疑的人)。 adv. -ingly 起懷疑心地,有懷疑地。 n. -ingness 多疑。
I do not doubt that it would be possible to inject ideas into the modern world that would utterly destroy us 向現(xiàn)代世界灌輸一種思想以便摧毀我們?nèi)祟愂强赡艿氖?,對此我并不懷疑?i class="labawb" onClick="playMp3('sound_c_4')">
Remembering aunty henny's own brusque attitude towards superfluous objects and papers, i did not doubt that he was right 想起漢妮伯母自己對多余的物品和文書證件不屑的態(tài)度,我并不懷疑他說的都是真話。
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for 我從不懷疑令人悲痛的年輕男人,年輕女人甚至嬰兒的死亡都是冥冥之中注定的事情。
If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, i do not doubt that you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him 有什么可擔(dān)心的呢!如果你關(guān)上門,保證我們不受干擾,我毫不懷疑他在你回來的時候會跟你離開時一樣平靜。
He could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from the train; but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress 可是機車怎么會把列車甩下去的呢,這一點他怎么也猜不出。但是他毫不懷疑,列車一定是留在后邊正處在進退兩難的境地!
Harry did not doubt that speech would return to him, and soon the vein pulsing in his uncles temple was reaching danger point, but something about dumbledore seemed to have robbed him temporarily of breath 但哈利相信他很快就會緩過勁兒來說話的??姨父太陽穴上的血管跳得都快爆炸了??但是鄧布利多身上的某種東西似乎使他一時喘不過氣來。
Those who know haiti do not doubt that it deserves to be somewhere near the bottom; finland, iceland and new zealand are plausible candidates for the top ( though both singapore and denmark are in effect there too ) 那些了解海地的人不會懷疑這個國家本就該排名近底;而芬蘭、冰島、新西蘭這些國家排名前列則似乎是理所當(dāng)然(盡管事實上新加坡和丹麥也排在此列)。