on pins and needles
基本解釋
- 如坐針氈;坐立不安
英漢例句
- Mrs. Watson sat on pins and needles.
沃森太太如坐針氈。 - The colonel, on pins and needles, did what he could to speed up the departure of the countryside guests.
如坐針氈的上校盡快打發(fā)走了鄕下的來賓。 - He's on pins and needles.
他坐立不安的。 - And so there's a sense of being on pins and needles among Republicans.
NPR: Foley, Iraq Cause Headaches for GOP - We've been waiting on pins and needles for Google to announce some official Android tablet plans for so long we'd almost forgotten about Mountain View's other operating system -- but from what we're hearing, Chrome OS is about to jump to center stage with a tablet debut on Verizon just before the holidays.
ENGADGET: Chrome OS tablet coming from Google and Verizon on Black Friday? (update: probably not)
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- on n pins and needles 如坐針氈
- sitting on pins and needles 如坐針氈
- wait on pins and needles 如坐針氈
- walk on pins and needles 如坐針氈
- sit on pins and needles 芒刺在背;如坐針氈
短語
英英字典
- worried or excited about something that is going to happen