nail-biting

1 a presidential election that was one of the great nail-biters of all time

2 Octopussy is a classic cloak-and-dagger nail-biter about a scheme by a rogue Russian general (Steven Berkoff) to detonate a nuke on an American military base in Germany.

3 The next week the Dolphins lost a 21-14 fourth-quarter nail-biter to the Buffalo Bills, at home, in a winner-take-all AFC East division battle.

4 Exhausted after the two-and-a-half-hour nail-biter, UCLA’s Cooper Robinson was doubled over with his hands on his knees during the celebration.

5 The unique nail-biter takes place in the shadows of L.A.’s homeless camps, run-down motels and dark alleys, following women who have turned — for various reasons — to a life of crime.

6 Though many Kennedys have previously praised Biden, their decision to formally endorse him as a unit deals a heavy blow to RFK Jr.'s independent presidential campaign, which has unnerved Democrats in a nail-biter of an election year.

7 Guy Ritchie, though, does a much more stimulating job with this nail-biter about a secret wartime operation.

8 In addition to being a great family comedy movie, Jumanji is also a real nail-biter.

9 The abrupt cut-away from the broadcast had some X users comparing to the infamous moment in 1968 when NBC jumped from a nail-biter New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game to switch to children’s movie Heidi.

10 a nail-biting finish

令人担心的结局

11 It's been a nail-biting couple of weeks waiting for my results.

这两个星期等结果，弄得我坐卧不安。

12 ...England's magnificent nail-biting 75-71 win over Russia.

英国队以75:71的比分战胜俄罗斯队，比赛精彩纷呈、扣人心弦

13 ...the nail-biting legal thriller, 'The Pelican Brief'.

扣人心弦的法理悬疑惊悚片《塘鹅暗杀令》

14 ...negative behaviour patterns such as nail-biting or thumb-sucking.

诸如咬指甲、吸吮拇指之类不好的行为习惯

15 Nail biting is often a subconscious reaction to tension.

咬指甲通常是紧张时的下意识反映.

1 烦躁的

fretful testy mardy fretty

2 使烦躁

itch fret irritate fray

3 令人紧张的

tense uncongenial

4 焦虑

anxious strained agitated anxiously anxiety sweat suspense agitation agitate careworn angst perturbation unquiet fash inquietude worry stew tremble cark careful misease fear hang-up nail-biter wherret with bated breath

5 紧张刺激的

spine-tingling

6 充满悬念的

suspenseful Hitchcockian

7 烦躁

fretful testy mardy fretty fidget dysphoria irritancy fantod fret itch irritate fray bummed out

8 悬疑的

suspenseful

9 悬疑

suspenseful suspensively suspense

10 束手无策

stalemate nail-biter

11 令人焦虑的

anxious

12 咬指甲

nail-biter