单词 | nervous |
释义 | nervous (once / 124 pages) 1adj 2adj You know that queasy, uneasy feeling you get before a test? That's a nervous feeling. Everyone gets nervous sometimes. Being nervous is a major part of life that everyone has to deal with at times. Some people are more nervous than others, but we all get nervous about certain things — for example, having to perform in front of a crowd makes most people nervous. Getting interviewed for a job is a nervous experience. When the stock market keeps going up or down, you could say it's a nervous stock market. Nervous also applies to the body's nervous system, which includes your brain, spinal cord, and the nerves throughout your body. If you think you injured your nervous system, that's a good reason to be nervous. WORD FAMILYnervous: nervouser, nervously, nervousness+/nerve: nerved, nerveless, nerves, nerving, nervous, nervy, unnerve/nerveless: nervelessly, nervelessness/nervousness: nervousnesses/nervy: nervier, nerviest, nervily/unnerve: unnerved, unnerves, unnerving/unnerving: unnervingly USAGE EXAMPLESFirst-time parents are often nervous about exposing their baby to the world. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Driving away from the scene, the men say little about the ordeal aside from nervous small talk. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The Boston Globe called “Beginners” “the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents’ discontent.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 adj of or relating to the nervous system 2nervous disease Syn neural 1adj causing or fraught with or showing anxiety those nervous moments before takeoff Syn anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet troubled characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need 2adj easily agitated a nervous addict a nervous thoroughbred Syn tense in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 3adj unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) Syn flighty, skittish, spooky excitable easily excited 4adj excited in anticipation Syn aflutter excited in an aroused state |
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