on pins and needles
基本解释
- 如坐针毡;坐立不安
英汉例句
- Mrs. Watson sat on pins and needles.
沃森太太如坐针毡。 - The colonel, on pins and needles, did what he could to speed up the departure of the countryside guests.
如坐针毡的上校尽快打发走了乡下的来宾。 - 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)
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- on n pins and needles 如坐针毡
- sitting on pins and needles 如坐针毡
- wait on pins and needles 如坐针毡
- walk on pins and needles 如坐针毡
- sit on pins and needles 芒刺在背;如坐针毡
短语
英英字典
- worried or excited about something that is going to happen