nail-biting

常見例句

Not, perhaps, a nail-biting plot. But it is a perfectly plausible description of the future of crime-fighting.
或許，這并不是一個扣人心弦的情節(jié)，但是這對打擊罪案的將來將是一個合理到完美的描述。
With professional advice, you can often dramatically lessen the amount of nail-biting and red ink you have to endure before the business takes hold.
在公司站穩(wěn)腳之前，有了專家建議你通常就可以大大減少束手無策和財(cái)政赤字的困擾。
At the nail-biting China-Spain basketball game on Tuesday, thousands of Chinese fans performed the wave, which they call the “Mexican wave.” (Are Mexicans known for doing the wave?
周二中國男籃對戰(zhàn)西班牙隊(duì)，比賽十分緊張，上千名中國球迷在看臺上表演他們口中的“墨西哥人浪”（墨西哥人做這種人浪嗎？

With seconds left in regulation time, South Africa equalized on a free kick by Mphela that sent the game into 30 nail-biting minutes of overtime.
I've always been like that. Byron was the only person I enjoyed reading during the nail-biting and tense period of studying for my orals.
我從下就這樣，拜倫是,我讀書的時候唯一一個喜歡的作家。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Worrywarts abound in international finance circles--there's always nail-biting about this currency fluctuation or that account deficit.
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Bankers admitted to developing chronic pain, never-ending colds, anger management problems and nervous tics such as nail-biting.
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And then begins the nail-biting time--the hours or days before you get in for a follow-up evaluation.
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