Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.

一直以来，恼怒的家长和投机的政客都担心电子游戏玩家会变得懒惰倦怠，或性情多变、暴躁乖戾。

Other media, meanwhile, fretted about the unraveling trilateral alliance of the U.S., Japan and South Korea.

同时，其他媒体则担心美国、日本和韩国之间的三方联盟可能会解体。

" Seattle is a big city - you could get lost, " he fretted.

" 西雅图是个——你弄不好会迷路的，" 他有点儿发愁。

" I don't know. Do you think it's bad? " Anxiety fretted.

“我不知道。你觉得是不好的吗？”焦焦发愁道。

And although Gillis' defenders have fretted about the sanctity of free speech in comedy, the audience of a comedic TV show should get to speak out about whether they want to watch someone who has espoused this type of humor.

就算吉利斯的支持者担心喜剧中言论自由的神圣性受到侵犯，喜剧节目的观众也应该有畅所欲言地表达自己是否想看拥护这种幽默的演员的表演的权利。

Stephen Breyer, for example, fretted about the possible fate under the law of a jogger carrying only a driver's licence from New Mexico, a state that borders Arizona and used to issue licences to illegal immigrants.

比如, 根据这项法律, 史蒂芬·拜耳就担心某位从新墨西哥州过来, 身上只带驾照的慢跑者的命运, 因为新墨西哥州毗邻亚利桑那州, 而且曾给非法移民发放过驾照.

Indeed, on August 12th Roberto Campos Neto, the head of Brazil's central bank, fretted that markets were beginning to perceive a " fiscal deterioration" that could jeopardise economic recovery.

事实上，8月12日，巴西央行行长罗伯托·坎波斯·内托(Roberto Campos Neto)对场开始察觉到可能危及苏的“财政恶化”感到很焦虑。

Harry fretted about this next to the fire in the Gryffindor common room, while Ron and Hermione used their lesson off to play a game of wizard chess.

哈利坐在格兰芬多公共休息室的炉火旁，心中十分烦恼，而罗恩和赫敏趁着不上课的工夫，在玩一种魔法棋的游戏。

Santi has a fine sense of humour and I was grateful for his easy laugh, even as I fretted about how far a virus might travel on the wind.

桑蒂很有幽默感，我很感激他轻松的笑声，尽管我担心病毒会随着风传播多远。

She fretted silently because Frank's money had not been enough to pay the taxes on Tara and buy the mill as well.

她暗自发愁，因为弗兰克的钱如果付了塔拉的税金就没法买那个锯木厂了。

Early in the postwar era, analysts fretted that automation would take over manufacturing, throwing everyone out of work.

战后早期，分析家们便担心自动化会控制制造业，让所有人都失业。

Astronomers have fretted over this for a long time, but trying to find such planets is hard.

天文家已为此烦恼了很长时间，但是要找到这样的行星是很困难的。

Sure enough, both metals' recent rallies came as investors fretted over geopolitical chaos and persistently rising prices.

可以肯定，这两种金属最近的上涨都是因为投资者对地缘政治混乱和物价持续上涨感到担忧。

" What are they laughing about? " Envy fretted. " Does anyone know what cool people laugh about? "

“她们在笑什么？”慕慕发愁道，“有谁知道很酷的人会笑什么吗？”

She was sure it was very ill—it cried, and fretted, and was all over pimples.

她确信那孩子病得很重——它哭闹不停，身上全是红疹。

That such things could be fretted him into clamor.

这类事情让他烦恼得声喧哗起来。

They rolled up to his lips and fretted them.

它们滚到他的嘴唇上， 抚弄着它们。

Only I fretted again it, and they didn't'.

只是我再次担心它， 而他们没有。

Grant fretted and irritated him, like the Terebratula, as a defiance of first principles.

格兰特像 Terebratula 一样烦躁和激怒他， 认为这是对第一原则的蔑视。

And for its part, Britain has more recently pushed away from American English, first as an empire that could afford to condescend to its former colonies, later as a medium-sized power that both admired and fretted about American might.

而英国则在最近一段时间逐渐远离美国英语，最初作为可以对前殖民地颐指气使的帝国， 后来作为一个既羡慕又担忧美国实力的中等强国。