bite one's nails 的定义
- Exhibit signs of anxiety, impatience, or nervousness, as in We'll be biting our nails till the jury comes back. Biting one's fingernails is a time-honored sign of emotional tension. The Roman satirist Horace described it about 35 b.c.: “As he wrought his verse he would often ... gnaw his nails to the quick”.
bite one's nails 近义词
等同于 worry
bite one's nails 的近义词 55 个
- annoy
- bother
- depress
- disturb
- fret
- irritate
- perturb
- plague
- trouble
- try
- unsettle
- upset
- afflict
- aggrieve
- agonize
- ail
- attack
- bedevil
- beleaguer
- beset
- brood
- bug
- chafe
- despair
- disquiet
- distress
- dun
- goad
- harass
- harry
- hassle
- hector
- importune
- needle
- oppress
- persecute
- pester
- stew
- tantalize
- tear
- tease
- test
- torment
- torture
- vex
- wince
- writhe
- wrong
- concern oneself
- feel uneasy
- gnaw at
- go for
- have qualms
- sweat out
- take on
bite one's nails 的反义词 14 个
更多bite one's nails例句
- Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
- The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
- Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.