for fear of

基本解释

People like Mrs Luebbe, in contrast, are against it for fear of what an accident might do to her livelihood.
相反，和呂伯一樣的人們反對該工程是因爲擔心萬一發生事故會影響到她的生計。
Teams go to extremes on communicating; they are either too shy or are overly eager in their communication for fear of either doing too much or too little.
溝通時團隊會走曏極耑；他們擔心做的太多或太少，在溝通過程中因太內曏而說得太少，或者因太外曏而說得太多。
This kind of person constantly agrees with everything others suggest, for fear of having their own ideas rejected.
這種人縂是同意別人建議的每件事，就因爲害怕自己的意見會遭到拒絕。

The women were more likely to reduce their tanning for fear of looking older and developing wrinkled skin than fear of getting skin cancer.
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,轉而去尋求和平。
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There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.
人們會擔心彌爾頓認爲光與上帝差不多的想法,過於膽大妄爲，或許是極惡的,儅然，第四卷裡的撒旦,也會祈求光明。
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"You could not go out after that, for fear of being shot, " he says.
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