on tenterhooks
基本解释
- 提心吊膽；焦慮不安
英汉例句
- 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。 - just to keep you poised and on tenterhooks.
這是爲了吊你們的好奇心。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選 - 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
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词组短语
- 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