on tenterhooks

1 I waited, on tenterhooks, for Uncle Jack to tell Atticus my side of it.

我提心吊胆地等着杰克叔叔告诉阿迪克斯我的理由.

2 The author keeps the reader on tenterhooks till the last chapter.

作者不断给读者造成悬念直到读完最后一章.

3 He was on tenterhooks of expectations during our conversation.

在我们谈话时,他因有所期待而.

4 The same core technologies that allow a Silicon Valley software developer to move to Colorado and work from a mountain retreat keep Starbucks baristas and home health care workers on tenterhooks.

5 We were kept on tenterhooks for hours while the judges chose the winner.

我们坐立不安了好几个小时,等着裁判们决定获胜者.

6 He was still on tenterhooks waiting for his directors' decision about the job.

他仍紧张不安地等待着主任们对他的工作作出的决定。

7 But Europe is set to remain on tenterhooks through the winter, with surging prices ravaging its economies.

8 Instead of leaving an audience on tenterhooks, we’re left only to shrug.

9 She was on tenterhooks when she heard of her mother's illness.

她得知母亲病了,感到坐立不安.

10 He was on tenterhooks of expectation during our conversation.

在我们谈话的时候,他因有所期待而如坐针毡.

11 Many of Germany’s two million migrants from Turkey live on tenterhooks.

12 His parents were on tenterhooks all the time until they got his letter.

他的父母在收到他的信前,一直是那样的.

13 I found him on tenterhooks when he was waiting for his girlfriend.

我发现他在等女朋友时显得.

14 This news ought to have the top three players on tenterhooks.

15 Without the visceral urgency of a dangerous virus — or a sitting president who tweets erratically late into the night — America’s news obsessives may simply feel more comfortable changing the channel in the evenings rather than waiting on tenterhooks for the latest development.

16 The movie kept us on tenterhooks for two hours.

这电影使我们如坐针毡了两个小时之久.

17 The tightrope walker had us on tenterhooks until her reached the safety of the other side.

在那位走钢丝者安全到达另一边前,我们都一直提心吊胆.

18 People are disquieted [ on tenterhooks ] .

人心惶惶.

19 The mother was on tenterhooks until her little Laura came back.

当小珞拉回来后,她母亲才放下心来.

20 There's a tentative deal on the debt ceiling, but the markets are still on tenterhooks.

1 坐立不安

restless fidgety antsy the heebie-jeebies shuffle fidget be on tenterhooks have ants in your pants get be in a stew about get be in a stew over get be in a stew get in a stew about get in a stew over get in a stew get yourself in a stew about get yourself in a stew over get yourself in a stew

2 如坐针毡的

on edge

3 焦虑不安

flap on thorns haunted unsettled uptight the heebie-jeebies prey on mind be on pins and needles stress out screw up weigh on fraught shaken unquiet nerve heebie-jeebies have kittens in a lather running scared

4 不确定

vague tentative indefinite precarious tremulous chancy doubt uncertainty in doubt

5 焦虑不安的

haunted unsettled uptight fraught shaken unquiet in a lather running scared

6 忧虑不安

disquiet

7 如坐针毡

on thorns on pins and needles be on pins and needles on edge be on tenterhooks like a cat on hot bricks

8 提心吊胆

nerve have heart in mouth your heart in your mouth