Fret

(noun.) a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch.

(noun.) an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief); 'there was a simple fret at the top of the walls'.

(noun.) agitation resulting from active worry; 'don't get in a stew'; 'he's in a sweat about exams'.

(verb.) wear away or erode.

(verb.) decorate with an interlaced design.

(verb.) carve a pattern into.

(verb.) be agitated or irritated; 'don't fret over these small details'.

(verb.) cause annoyance in.

(verb.) provide (a musical instrument) with frets; 'fret a guitar'.

海伦手打

• Scull it is, pardner--don't fret yourself--I didn't touch him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I make the schoolmaster so ridiculous, and so aware of being made ridiculous, that I see him chafe and fret at every pore when we cross one another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No; I do not desire to return to the world, with all its tumult, ambitions, and fret. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• If it suited her to grow ugly, why need others fret themselves on the subject? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But don't you fret yourself on that score. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It heaves and frets beneath the artificial political map like some misfitted giant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is that what frets you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What frets me is, that when I try to esteem, I am baffled; when religiously inclined, there are but false gods to adore. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But a Greek republic would have been dangerous to all monarchy in a Europe that fretted under the ideas of the Holy Alliance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It fretted him to think the visit might never be repeated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He fretted, pished, and pshawed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• By this time, fasting and fretting had made poor Meyler seriously unwell. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I said, 'No man is worth fretting for in that way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I've often wondered to see men that could call their wives and children _their own_ fretting and worrying about anything else. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I could not guess what his decision might be, and for hours I sat fretting over the outcome of the matter. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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