英语释义

1. a pricking tingling sensation in a limb growing numb or recovering from numbness

2. in a nervous or jumpy state of anticipation

3. the unpleasant tingling feeling in a part of your body (such as your arm or leg) as it becomes numb or recovers from being numb

片语

on n pins and needles如坐针毡

sit on pins and needles如坐针毡

be on pins and needles坐立不安

sitting on pins and needles如坐针毡

wait on pins and needles如坐针毡

on needles and pins坐立不安

walk on pins and needles如坐针毡

on the edge在边缘上；坐立不安

英汉例句

• they waited on pins and needles for the football scores.

  针的基本类型有两种：舌针和钩针。

• this movie will keep you on pins and needles from beginning to end.

  这部电影会使你从头到尾都觉得很紧张、刺激。

• when people read my works they feel they are on pins and needles and their convinced rule and law begin to be unstable.

  人们阅读我的作品时，感觉如坐针毡，原先固守的规则和律法都受到了冒犯。

• 「every weekend, we sit on pins and needles watching to see if our films will flop,」 explains a studio executive, 「and that doesn「t encourage risk-taking in the business as a whole.」

  「每个周末，我们都会如坐针毡的看我们的电影是否会失败」电影制作人解释说，「作为整体我们并不鼓励在生意上冒险。」

• he was on pins and needles waiting for the result of the job interview.

  找工作的面试结果出来前他如坐针毡。

• he was certainly on pins and needles - i」ll bet this is the first time his wife has ever had a baby.

  我敢打赌，这肯定是他太太第一次生孩子。

• i「ve been on pins and needles all week. the boss said he wants to see me this friday.

  我这整个星期如坐针毡。老板说他这个星期五要召见我。

• the students were all on pins and needles waiting for their exam results.

  学生们都在如坐针毡的等待考试结果的出来。

• he calls: on pins and needles expecting a call image too not the spirit of the age, 「as long as i」m glad to have what can「t?」

  等他来电：坐立不安地等电话的形象太没有时代精神了，「只要我高兴，有什么不可以？」

• i don」t know about you, but i've been on pins and needles the whole time.

  片中我不知道你有什么感觉，但我已经是如坐针毡了。

• mrs. watson sat on pins and needles .

  沃森太太如坐针 毡。

• when dad first quit drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a situation that, in the past, would have started him drinking again.

  当爹爹开始戒酒的时候，在那段过去的日子里，每次只要想到他会不会再喝的问题，全家的人就心里不得安宁如坐针毯。