"I remembers one day I said to 'er: 'What's the matter, Megan?'--'er name was Megan David, she come from Wales same as 'er aunt, ol' Missis Narracombe. 'Yu'm frettin' about somethin'. I says. 'No, Jim,' she says, 'I'm not frettin'.' 'Yes, yu be!' I says. 'No,' she says, and to tears cam' rollin' out. 'Yu'm cryin'--what's that, then?' I says. She putts 'er 'and over 'er 'eart: 'It 'urts me,' she says; 'but 'twill sune be better,' she says. 'But if anything shude 'appen to me, Jim, I wants to be burried under this 'ere apple tree.' I laughed.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
`Good-bye, Mrs Baker,' he said, holding on to her hand. `And don't you fret. You've -- you've got the children yet. It's -- it's all for the best;
and, besides, the Boss said you wasn't to fret.' And he blundered out
after me and Miss Standish.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
Dad sat gloomily by the fire and meditated. Mother spoke pleadingly to him and asked him not to fret. He ran his fingers uneasily through his hair and spat in the ashes. "Don't fret? When there's not a bit to eat in the place--when there's no way of getting anything, and when--merciful God!--every year sees things worse than they were before."英文原著 · 《On Our Selection》
Little, but feminine instinct withheld her; she divined that Mrs. Little must be deeply offended. She fretted for a sight of Henry, and for an explanation, in which she might clear herself, and show her love, without being in the least disobedient to her father. Now all this was too subtle to be written. So she fretted and pined for a meeting. While she was in this condition, and losing color every day, who should call one day--to reconnoiter, I suppose--but Mr. Coventry. Grace was lying on the sofa, languid and distraite, when he was announced.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
"Niver fret, Barney," cried Tom Magee, who in the near approach of battle was his own man again. "Niver ye fret. It's birrds we are, an' the more air for us the better."英文原著 · 《The Doctor》
"Fret?" she cried, looking up brightly. "Never more, Jack. I shall never fret again in all my life. I'm going to build up for these five days, every hour, every minute. I want Barney to see me well."英文原著 · 《The Doctor》
She'd spend the rest of the day fretting over what she'd done to set him off, and hoping he'd come home.美剧 · 《Billions》