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词汇 fussing
释义 fussing
present participle offuss
fuss
verb
uk /fʌs/ us /fʌs/

fussverb (GIVE ATTENTION TO)


[ I ]
to give too much attention to small matters that are not important, usually in a way that shows that you are worried and not relaxed: (为小事)过于烦恼,过度焦虑;过于关注(细节)
Please, stop fussing - the food's cooking and there's nothing more to do until the guests arrive.别瞎忙活了——饭正做着,客人们来之前没什么要做的了。
fuss withIt irritates me the way she's always fussing with her hair!她老是摆弄自己的头发,真让人受不了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Anxious and worried
(all) hot and botheredidiom
aflutter
agitated
angsty
anxious
fretfully
frightened
fuss
get in a sweatidiom
goosey
pit of your stomachidiom
preoccupied
prey
prey on sb's mindidiom
prey on something
wired
worried
worriedly
worrier
worrywart

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Wanting everything to be right

Phrasal verb


fuss over someone/something

Examples of fussing


fussing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Wood notes that in addition to crying, infant signaling modalities include other vocalizations such as fussing and facial expressions.
Crying and whining were both considered to be negative vocalizations, as were sighing, fussing and sounds of discomfort.
There was no difference between the groups in the reported amounts of infant fussing and crying during the day or at night-time.
Between 2 and 3 months, fussing and cooing became a new vocalization, "interrupted fussing," characterized by alternations between the two kinds of vocalizations.
The perceived amounts of time the babies spent crying and fussing did not differ between the groups at any age.
But there is more to this story than merely fussing about whether the model's parameters predict the appropriate behavior.
In particular, increased responsiveness to fussing or crying infants lessens the overall amount of infant crying.
We are fussing with all these amendments because we want to introduce something which will work.
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Scientists do not do their best work if they are for ever fussing, understandably, about their personal future in the short and medium terms.
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I do not think so; in my view, we are fussing too much about a little thing.
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No good purpose can be served by our fussing over it.
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He has been fussing about fees; distracting attention from the real things by trying to force up students' fees.
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It is a trouble about which humane judges have been fussing and bothering for 85 years in relation to desertion.
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One might say that that is ridiculous and just fussing about names.
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We are fussing about it all unnecessarily, and every day we are undermining the confidence of the major financial markets further still.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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