nerve-racking

英 [ˈnɜːv rækɪŋ]

美 [ˈnɜːrv rækɪŋ]

adj.  令人十分紧张的; 令人焦虑不安的

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人十分紧张的；令人焦虑不安的
  making you feel very nervous and worried

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 使人焦虑的;使人十分紧张的
  Anerve-rackingsituation or experience makes you feel very tense and worried.
  1. The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them...
     女人和孩子们在外面紧张不安地挨过了一天，而战斗仍在她们身边继续。
  2. It was more nerve-wracking than taking a World Cup penalty.
     这比在世界杯上罚点球还扣人心弦。

英英释义

adj

• extremely irritating to the nerves
  1. nerve-racking noise
  2. the stressful days before a war
  3. a trying day at the office
  Synonym:nerve-wrackingstressfultrying

双语例句

• I'm having my surgery tomorrow, and while it's always a little nerve-racking to go under the knife, I'm excited to take the first step towards getting healthy and getting back on the court.
  我明天就要做手术了，尽管要动刀时总是让人很头疼，但我还是很兴奋能迈出让我恢复健康并回到场上的第一步。
• The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them
  女人和孩子们在外面紧张不安地挨过了一天，而战斗仍在她们身边继续。
• He had no thoughts save for the nerve-racking, body-destroying toil.
  在这儿只有折磨神经戕害身体的苦工，没有思想。
• These frenzies were nerve-racking because oftentimes I didn't know why he was crying or how to make him stop.
  这种狂怒是对精神的一种折磨，因为大多数时间我都不明白他为什么要哭、怎么才能叫他停下来。
• Designed to elicit intense excitement and nerve-racking tension, thrillers create suspense by placing the protagonist in a perilous situation from which escape seems impossible.
  恐怖片旨在引起观众强烈的感官刺激，挑起神经撕裂般的紧张，影片把主角置身于似乎无法逃离的险境中来制造悬念。
• Waiting to find out whether the sellers would accept our purchase offer was nerve-racking.
  等候知道卖方是不是愿意接受我们买方提出的条件真令人心焦。
• C.At first, the experience was nerve-racking.
  开始的时候这段经历让我很伤脑筋。
• Although we were warned of the dreadful bite of the Rat, most of us were not prepared at all for the upheavals and nerve-racking crises that shook the world in2008.
  我们都知道让鼠咬之可怕，但2008年带来剧变、叫人伤神的世界危机是多数人始料不及的。
• Must be pretty nerve-racking to be the last two today.
  作为今天最后两个一定非常痛苦。
• But relying on allies who do not wish to come forward until the last minute is always a nerve-racking proposition.
  但对于民主党来说，指望有盟友能在最后一刻挺身而出反对这一议案实在是一件伤脑筋的事。