uptight

1 Dad does the finger-tapping thing he does when he’s getting uptight.

2 “Aunt Jo. Say it just like that. Let the words slide out and don’t be so uptight about it. It’s just English, not too complicated.”

3 "When I looked at what the celebrities were wearing at the event, it seemed too uptight and over-done and over-styled compared to her."

4 “One thing that boy doesn’t seem is uptight.”

5 Lorena tells me I’m too uptight, which is why I hardly have any friends.

6 I tend to get very uptight during a match.

比赛时我总会紧张得不行。

7 “Listen, Ky,” Bud began nervously as soon as they had ordered drinks, “things are beginning to get awfully uptight back home.”

8 Penny never got uptight about exams...

彭妮从来不会因为考试而紧张。

9 And two, it’s because I’ve known people who I call “sacred monsters,” like famous art people and such, who are so uptight about always doing everything the same way.

10 “I was way more uptight and awkward than they were.”

11 The limited appeal of the very popular “The Proposal” was in Ms. Bullock’s uptight executive treating him as a dominatrix principal might.

12 While cities and villages flutter with red, white and blue bunting and shop windows are decorated with objects incorporating the Union Jack, there is an easier and less uptight relationship between palace and people.

13 Coffee bars will only work in Santiago, because Chileans are so uptight.

咖啡馆只有在圣地亚哥才能经营，因为这里太保守了。

14 His gleeful disobedience reminded me of how I routinely provoked my mother, who—to me—seemed rather uptight and in need of some ruffling.

15 Relax! You're getting too uptight about it.

轻松点儿！你对这事太紧张了。

16 The imminent arrival at their house of an assortment of wizards was making the Dursleys uptight and irritable.

17 He pauses, then says, “Haven’t you read Jane Austen? We English are more uptight than you lot, isn’t that so?”

18 M：Hmph. You're never this uptight when you are with your Chinese friends.

L：跟中国朋友在一起我当然不紧张咯，我跟他们都很熟嘛。

19 When she first received the script, this British actress, who came to fame as the more uptight half of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” hid it under some magazines and coffee-table books, almost wishing it away.

20 Roast until the cheese relaxes from uptight to loosey-goosey, soft enough to hug spaghetti or rigatoni or whatever else your pantry has in store.

1 手头拮据

feel the draft

2 神经过敏

neurotic overstrung habdabs

3 拘泥

formally starchness restraint starchiness stand on

4 严重

high hard bad major deep serious critical severe crucial terrible chronic gross grave deadly acute nasty uncanny momentous grievous unusually severity

5 忧虑的

lost apprehensive aggrieved chewed up

6 忧虑

lost apprehensive aggrieved care worry trouble doubt anxiety unrest apprehension lather fizzle solicitude worriment apprehend exercise concern fear mistrust chewed up get knickers in a twist

7 生气的

crooked huffy sulky waxy cross tight angry sore grumpy steamed vex grouchy aerated eggy snaky fed up peed off het up hot under the collar vexed shirty grouty black wild sick crook irate ratty choleric snuffy

8 严重的

high hard bad major deep serious critical severe crucial terrible chronic gross grave deadly acute nasty uncanny momentous grievous

9 易怒的

quick cross nervous fiery crook irritable crusty combustible waxy touchy spiky peppery chippy fractious ratty crabby irascible hot-tempered choleric huffy crotchety bad-tempered peevish snaky tetchy querulous hoity-toity waspish testy splenetic pettish liverish miffy snuffy out of sorts

10 出色的

jim-dandy ten-carat good mean Able beautiful useful signal stone proper golden trim magnificent smash distinguished cracking first-class frantic colossal conspicuous groovy grouse amiable jake bang-up socko jam-up whizbang gradely bang-on real gone

11 易怒

quick cross nervous fiery crook irritable crusty combustible waxy touchy spiky peppery chippy fractious ratty crabby irascible hot-tempered choleric huffy crotchety bad-tempered peevish snaky tetchy querulous hoity-toity waspish testy splenetic pettish liverish miffy snuffy temper out of sorts

12 亲近

fellowly close familiar conversant contact approach intimacy familiarity conversance neighbor cotton hobnob familiarize befriend

13 紧张

intense stiff lively tense tensile strained taut corded strung screwed-up stressed-out atwitter tensional tensive tensely tautly stress stretch strain tension fuss lather tightness intension tenseness tautness tonus tensity whim-wham fluster string key up on the strain tensed up tense up wound up stressed out hyped up highly strung stressful thrilling uneasy twitchy flustered rattled high-strung strung up tizzy thrill rattle ruffle unnerve be get into a state be in into a state keen edgy charged nervy pressure twitter intensity dither collywobbles in a lather have butterflies in your stomach have butterflies heavy tight nervous hyper stressed knotted jumpy skittish stiffly state flutter excite knot flap fray unsettle in a tizzy on the edge of your seat in a stew rattle cage

14 过分拘谨的

pudibund prudish prim

15 恼怒的

black cross peeved miffed out of sorts

16 烦恼

upset troubled laden haunted disturbed torturous laboring harassed tormenting agonising plaguy painfully annoyingly agonisingly vexedly torturingly tracasserie worry disturbance woe ruffle gall perturbation vexation botheration cark worriment besetment bother agonise get try exercise load trouble bug harass annoy torment fray molest wring pester vex fester ail perturb discommode get under skin boiling water

17 恼怒

black cross peeved miffed offence pique exasperation offend in high dudgeon huff and puff out of sorts

18 生气

vexed shirty grouty life animation pulse dash warmth irritation vim pith fret huff go off at half cock out of humor in a fit of pique out of pique go up in the air get knickers in a twist vital power go to a market steamed up on the high ropes give the pip get the needle black wild sick angry crook waxy irate ratty choleric huffy snaky snuffy wax grump PET spark peeve chafe vigour niggle pizazz dudgeon empurple enrage displease overcloud burn offend take offence Get dander up out of humour spit chips

19 拘谨

tight-arsed formal inhibited reserve inhibition

20 烦恼的

upset troubled laden haunted disturbed torturous laboring harassed tormenting agonising plaguy

21 神经过敏的

neurotic overstrung

22 因循守旧的

conventional

23 刻板的

straight lockstep ceremonious

24 愤怒

angry heated inflammatory blistering red-hot irate indignant exasperate hopping hot wrathful teen rage wrath fume ire dudgeon mad provoke incense pique be in a fume in dudgeon up the wall warm savage wroth irritation bile indignation exasperation choler boil in hot blood in warm blood black inflamed glaring vehement exasperated vitriolic choked bitterly hotly fire heat stir outrage spleen animosity animus gall inflame sicken in a lather hot under the collar hopping mad

25 紧张不安的

jittery jumpy nervy jitter unstrung edgy highly-strung strung up highly strung excited wired fussy high-strung

26 极端保守的

ultraconservative mossy verkrampte

27 紧张不安

jittery jumpy nervy jitter unstrung jimjams woolly fluster nail-biter hoo-ha willies whim-wham nervosity edgy highly-strung nervously jitters edginess heebie-jeebies unstring strung up highly strung excited wired fussy high-strung keyed up excite be on edge

28 有敌意的

ugly unfriendly

29 熟知的

common

30 熟知

common understand acquaint know like the back of hand

31 紧张的

intense stiff lively tense tensile strained taut corded strung screwed-up stressed-out atwitter tensional tensive tensed up wound up stressed out twitchy windy anxious wired tonic charged high-pitched tremulous jiggy squirrelly aflutter unrelaxed trepidatious adrenalized hyped up highly strung thrilling uneasy flustered rattled high-strung strung up keen stressful edgy nervy heavy tight nervous hyper stressed knotted jumpy skittish state in a stew

32 着急

upset headily stew haste sweat

33 焦虑不安的

haunted unsettled on tenterhooks

34 愤怒的

angry heated inflammatory blistering red-hot irate indignant exasperate hopping wrathful be in a fume up the wall warm mad savage wroth black inflamed glaring vehement exasperated vitriolic hot under the collar

35 刻板

straight lockstep ceremonious

36 拘谨的

tight-arsed formal inhibited

37 出色

jim-dandy ten-carat good mean Able beautiful useful signal stone proper golden trim magnificent smash distinguished cracking first-class frantic colossal conspicuous groovy grouse amiable jake bang-up socko jam-up whizbang gradely bang-on fine rarely strictly finely first-rate capitally real gone with credit

38 过分拘谨

pudibund prudish prudery

39 着急的

upset

40 过敏的

allergic irritable intolerant

41 焦虑不安

haunted unsettled the heebie-jeebies on tenterhooks prey on mind be on pins and needles stress out screw up weigh on

42 亲近的

fellowly close familiar conversant