on tenterhooks
基本解释
- 提心吊胆；焦虑不安
英汉例句
- He was on tenterhooks of expectation during our conversation.
在我们谈话时，他因有所期待而如坐针毡。 %。 - Harry Potter fans are on tenterhooks before a press conference in which JK Rowling has promised to lift the veil on her next venture.
这场新闻发布会之前，哈迷们都寝食难安，因为JK罗琳承诺要在会上为她的下一步举动揭开面纱。 - 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.
婶子，你说我心焦不心焦?况且如今又没个好大夫，我想到他这病上，我心里倒象针扎似的。 - just to keep you poised and on tenterhooks.
这是为了吊你们的好奇心。
耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选 - 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 六神无主;英语翻译
- be always on tenterhooks 心惊肉跳
- be put on tenterhooks 魂梦不安
- live on tenterhooks forever 永远提心吊胆过日子
- live on tenterhooks 永远提心吊胆过日子