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Vocabulary

Be afraid of / for

Hello,( 1 ) He was afraid of her misfortune?Is it to say :Her misfortune caused him being afraid?( 2 ) He was afraid for her misfortune? Is it to say :In a maner that he was afraid, he faced her misfortune?Thank you for your help.
  

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Sentence #1 has no reasonable discernible meaning. Sentence #2 means that he thought her misfortune would be unfortunate. This is hardly worth thinking about, since the result it patently obvious.

  • Sentence #1 has no reasonable discernible meaning.
  • Sentence #2 means that he thought her misfortune would be unfortunate.
  • This is hardly worth thinking about, since the result it patently obvious.
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Sentence #1 has no reasonable discernible meaning.
Sentence #2 means that he thought her misfortune would be unfortunate. This is hardly worth thinking about, since the result it patently obvious.
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Yes, sentence #1 is discernible meaning.( ) But simply I want to clear difference between #1 and #2.I rephrase them.( 1 ) He was afraid of the dog ? ( 2 ) He was sympathy for hermisfortune ?
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Yes, sentence #1 is discernible meaning.-- OK, then: please tell me what it means.
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That means: I responded to the dog by being afraid.By chance, I saw a pagraph in "The Economist", ( ) Grim-faced and impatient of the critics, he weathered the storm. = He responded to the critics by being grim-faced and impatient. I find that the"of" always follows an attitude of a person.
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There is no dog in your sentence: 'He was afraid of her misfortune.'
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OK.He was too much of a coward to face her misfortune, and responded to it with being afraid.
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No, I did a wrong way.

It means that her misfortune caused him worry.

Here, the "of" = for making being afraid
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No, that does not work, bepleased. 'Afraid of' does not mean' worry'.
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Thank you for you giving a good excercise to me. That means: A thing has me full of fear / frightened. And that thing derives from her misfortune----that thing of her misfortune.
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Oh, Oh the most inward suffering appear in the following sentences.( 1 ) I'm afraid that I've broken your pen. That means: I feel sorry and the sentiment has an intend aim directed at / towards the thing that I've broken your pen????( 2 ) I thank you for your help.That means : I express my gratefulness unto / at you, that is in regard to / or in return for your help, or that is for you

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