果味酸柯林斯词典

on tenterhooks

O 开头单词

基本解释

  • 提心吊膽；焦慮不安

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • He was on tenterhooks of expectation during our conversation.
    在我們談話時，他因有所期待而如坐針氈。 %。
  • Harry Potter fans are on tenterhooks before a press conference in which JK Rowling has promised to lift the veil on her next venture.
    這場新聞發佈會之前，哈迷們都寢食難安，因爲JK羅琳承諾要在會上爲她的下一步擧動揭開麪紗。
  • You can't imagine how worded I am, sister. We haven't got any good doctors nowadays, either. This illness is keeping me on tenterhooks.
    嬸子，你說我心焦不心焦?況且如今又沒個好大夫，我想到他這病上，我心裡倒象針紥似的。

    • 原聲例句

  • just to keep you poised and on tenterhooks.
    這是爲了吊你們的好奇心。
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    • 權威例句

  • The team waits on tenterhooks to discover the final figure to be revealed at 04:23 PST on Friday 1st February.
    ENGADGET: GameStick reveals final backer-aided design, dock for peripherals
  • Meanwhile Macedonia, which in 2001 almost descended into civil war between the majority Macedonians and minority ethnic Albanians, is on tenterhooks.
    ECONOMIST: Why nerves are jangling from Croatia to Macedonia
  • The European Central Bank (ECB) certainly remains on tenterhooks with about 30% of futures dealers pricing in a refi-rate (refinancing rate) cut on Thursday.
    FORBES: Eurozone Economy Keeps the House Divided

词组短语

    短語

  • be on the tenterhooks 六神無主;英語繙譯
  • be always on tenterhooks 心驚肉跳
  • be put on tenterhooks 魂夢不安
  • live on tenterhooks forever 永遠提心吊膽過日子
  • live on tenterhooks 永遠提心吊膽過日子