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

• Especially in a nerve-racking setting, like a job interview?
  尤其在一个让人紧张的场合，比如工作面试？
• A fact of life for the conference interpreter in China, however, is the omnipresent mobile phone and its nerve-racking disturbances.
  在中国一个让译员头疼但又无法逃避的问题就是无所不在的手机干扰。
• 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。
• 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。
• With such a slender lead, there were bound to be nerve-racking moments as the game entered it's final phases.
  带着这样微小的优势，曼联进入了令人紧张的最后时刻。
• I knew this first one was going to be really nerve-racking.
  我知道第一首曲子很难选。
• 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。
• It might be nerve-racking, but express your true self without thinking about how people are judging you.
  听上去可能有点神经兮兮的，但却展示了真实的你自己不愿多想别人是怎么看待你的。
• 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。
• Fundamentalist life can be nerve-racking, but fundamentalists can reduce the cost of risk-bearing by simply not following day-by-day price fluctuations too closely.
  基本面分析派的生活可能会很伤脑筋，但他们可以降低负担风险的代价，只要不过于密切地追踪每日价格波动。