on pins and needles

单词on pins and needles

基本解释

na.: 如坐针毡[急得要命]
网络: 坐立不安；坐如针毡；如坐针毯

英汉解释

• 牵肠挂肚

• 顶住

例句

• I"ve been on pins and needles all week. The boss said he wants to see me this Friday.

  我这整个星期如坐针毡。老板说他这个星期五要召见我。

• The next day Yin was on pins and needles all day, but the demons didn"t show up.

  第二天，殷一整天如坐针毡，但是鬼怪没有再出现。

• I have been on pins and needles all day waiting for him to call me back.

  我整整一天都如坐针毡，等他回我电话。

• He calls: on pins and needles expecting a call image too not the spirit of the age, "as long as I"m glad to have what can"t? "

  等他来电：坐立不安地等电话的形象太没有时代精神了，“只要我高兴，有什么不可以？”

• The criminal was on pins and needles. He was eager to know if the jury believed his story since it was made up out of whole cloth.

  罪犯如坐针毡，想知道陪审团是否相信了他的故事，因为这个故事纯属是他编造出来的。

• welcome to the Big Apple. I hope you don"t feel like a fish out of water here. we"ve been on pins and needles waiting for you.

  欢迎来到纽约，我希望你在这里可以不受约束，我们早已等你等的迫不及待了。

• The colonel, on pins and needles, did what he could to speed up the departure of the countryside guests.

  如坐针毡的上校尽快打发走了乡下的来宾。

• He tried to look calm and confident but everybody in the courtroom knew he was on pins and needles.

  他想装得很平静，很有自信，但是在法庭上的每个人都知道他很紧张。

• This movie will keep you on pins and needles from beginning to end.

  这部电影会让你从头到尾觉得很紧张，刺激。

• What a week it"s been, I don"t know about you. I was on pins and needles the entire time.

  这一周可真精彩，我不知道你怎么样，我可是等得好心急。