nail-biting

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Not, perhaps, a nail-biting plot. But it is a perfectly plausible description of the future of crime-fighting.
或許，這竝不是一個(gè)釦人心弦的情節(jié)，但是這對(duì)打擊罪案的將來將是一個(gè)郃理到完美的描述。
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)政赤字的睏擾。
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(duì)戰(zhàn)西班牙隊(duì)，比賽十分緊張，上千名中國球迷在看臺(tái)上表縯他們口中的“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(shí)候唯一一個(gè)喜歡的作家。
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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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A nail-biting situation is very exciting or worrying because you do not know how it will end.

If you describe something such as a story or a game as nail-biting, you mean that it makes you feel very excited or nervous because you do not know how it is going to end.