fraught
adjective/frɔːt/
/frɔːt/
- fraught with something filled with something unpleasant
充满（不愉快事物）的 - a situation fraught with danger/difficulty/problems
充满危险／困难重重／问题成堆的局面
- a situation fraught with danger/difficulty/problems
- (especially British English) causing or feeling worry and stress
焦虑的；忧虑的；担心的 - She looked/sounded fraught.
她愁容满面；她的话音显出忧虑。 - There was a fraught silence.
有一阵令人焦虑的沉默。 - The atmosphere remained fraught.
气氛依然紧张。 - Things are as fraught as ever in the office.
办公室的情况和往常一样令人担心。
- She looked/sounded fraught.
Word Originlate Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.