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，和吕伯一样的人们反对该工程是因为担心万一发生事故会影响到她的生计。
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.
沟通时团队会走向极端；他们担心做的太多或太少，在沟通过程中因太内向而说得太少，或者因太外向而说得太多。
This kind of person constantly agrees with everything others suggest, for fear of having their own ideas rejected.
这种人总是同意别人建议的每件事，就因为害怕自己的意见会遭到拒绝。

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.
与理性不同，恐惧让我们放弃自然状态,转而去寻求和平。
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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.
人们会担心弥尔顿认为光与上帝差不多的想法,过于胆大妄为，或许是极恶的,当然，第四卷里的撒旦,也会祈求光明。
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"You could not go out after that, for fear of being shot, " he says.
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