I'd get a sickening sense of dread for the fortnight leading up to them, knowing that I would become a sleep-deprived grumpy, spotty hermit.

想想自己将会变成一个睡眠不足的，性情乖戾情绪不稳的隐士，我对十四天的夜班感到胆战心惊。

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He believed, it is true, that there was no need to dread for himself, but thought he would send somebody else, though, to see how the matter was getting on.

他相信，自己是无须担心的，但是尽管如此，他还是准备派别人去看看情况怎么样了。

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What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas.

我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。

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Being launched into the holiday machine with a family that celebrates bigheartedly, boisterously and lavishly became a source of yearly panic and dread for me.

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And for one glum moment, we could see only half of all the judges' faces as they waited with silent dread for the looming Smoke Monster to drag them away.

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Hyperlocal news sites regard Groupon and other daily deal services with a mixture of love (for flooding their coffers with ad dollars) and dread (for competing with their own deal offerings).

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