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.