词汇 | worrywart |
释义 | worrywart noun[ C ] USinformaluk /ˈwʌr.i.wɔːt/ us /ˈwɝː.i.wɔːrt/ a person who often worries, especially about things that are not important: 杞人忧天的人;总是担心的人 Don't listen to him - he's just an old worrywart.别听他的——他只是个杞人忧天的老家伙。 Synonym worrier 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 wound up Examples of worrywartworrywart Worry is a prevalent habit, and since it is annoying rather than disabling, many worrywarts don't recognize themselves as anxious. From Huffington Post Another surprise they found was that people who were consistently too cheerful or too optimistic didn't live as long as their worrywart counterparts. From ABC News Instant messaging turned out to offer each of us a sort of wormhole through the normal worrywart process. From The Atlantic This is partly why women are more likely to suffer from generalized anxiety disorder (also known as the "worrywart disorder") whereby everyday activities can cause excessive and ongoing anxiety. From Huffington Post 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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