on tenterhooks

常见例句

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。
  耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

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
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