英语词汇“tenterhooks”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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I shall be on tenterhooks until that great concession comes.
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We are all on tenterhooks because we do not know whether we are in order.
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For a long time, as perhaps was his wish, he kept me on tenterhooks as to just which side of the fence he would land.
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It has all the makings of an excellent whodunnit—we are on tenterhooks to discover who will accredit whom throughout the debate.
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It would be quite impossible to keep a man on tenterhooks for 24 hours.
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They are on tenterhooks—their livelihoods are at stake and their families do not know what will happen.
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It will be welcomed by the work force, whose members have been on tenterhooks for about 18 months.
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We have cases of foot and mouth and, as in many other constituencies, the farming community is on tenterhooks.
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I waited on tenterhooks to hear him draw the conclusion that there should be a proportionate increase in those arms in our own forces.
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I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next, and whether we will indeed be able to come to an agreement following first reading.
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He lives on tenterhooks lest he should overlook an item and development take place of which he has no knowledge.
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What is the point of keeping the country on tenterhooks?
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All the time that he was keeping us on tenterhooks he was defending something on which he had not been attacked at all.
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Some of us are on tenterhooks.
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词汇	tenterhooks
释义	tenterhooks noun[ plural ] uk /ˈten.tə.hʊks/ us /ˈten.t̬ɚ.hʊks/ on tenterhooks worried or nervous about something that is going to happen: 提心吊胆的，焦虑不安的，如坐针毡的 We were on tenterhooks all morning waiting for the phone to ring.我们整个上午都如坐针毡，一直在等着电话铃响。 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 worried worriedly worrier worrywart wound up Examples of tenterhooks tenterhooks The purpose and view was to threaten the enemy and to keep him on tenterhooks, whether he believed it or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall be on tenterhooks until that great concession comes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all on tenterhooks because we do not know whether we are in order. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For a long time, as perhaps was his wish, he kept me on tenterhooks as to just which side of the fence he would land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has all the makings of an excellent whodunnit—we are on tenterhooks to discover who will accredit whom throughout the debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be quite impossible to keep a man on tenterhooks for 24 hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are on tenterhooks—their livelihoods are at stake and their families do not know what will happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will be welcomed by the work force, whose members have been on tenterhooks for about 18 months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have cases of foot and mouth and, as in many other constituencies, the farming community is on tenterhooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I waited on tenterhooks to hear him draw the conclusion that there should be a proportionate increase in those arms in our own forces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next, and whether we will indeed be able to come to an agreement following first reading. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He lives on tenterhooks lest he should overlook an item and development take place of which he has no knowledge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the point of keeping the country on tenterhooks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the time that he was keeping us on tenterhooks he was defending something on which he had not been attacked at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of us are on tenterhooks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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