英语释义

1. marked by twitches or jerking movements tending to twitch
Oliver did not think he would be able to sleep, but he did sleep—a restless, twitchy sleep filled with hideous dreams.
— Eva Ibbotson Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner that recalled a spider, his oily hair swinging about his face.
— J. K. Rowling

2. nervously on edge or fretful
This revelation was an incredible relief to those of us who get a little twitchy at the thought of making pasta …
— Jane Daniels Lear There was action every minute, and so much momentum carrying the story forward that until I finished it, I was in a sort of twitchy agony if I got stuck doing anything else.
— Eric Konigsberg

片语

inquiet焦急的；不安的；不安静的

vext焦急的；为难的；恼怒的

英汉例句

• Watch just one show, and I swear you「ll be scanning your dates, coworkers and neighbors for flashes of twitchy eyebrows, erratic blinks and one-shouldered shrugs.

  我发誓只要看一集，你的脑中会开始闪过你的约会对象，同事，邻居的每一个挑眉，每一个闪烁的眼神，每一个不自觉的耸肩。

• The World Bank is twitchy about its investment.

  世界银行对这项投资焦躁不安。

• Consumers are already twitchy in America, where bank failures are rising and the nation」s deposit-insurance fund faces a potential shortfall.

  消费者已经对美国开始恐慌不安，因为那里的银行倒闭在增加而国家的存款保险基金很有可能面临亏空。

• Of course, given that the game industry「s core demographic still consists of twitchy young men, it」s hardly shocking that it wouldn「t be striving to create a digital Finnegan」s Wake.

  当然，考虑到游戏业核心族群仍由焦躁的年轻人组成，也就难怪《费尼根复活》不被费力地做成游戏了。

• The sunlight over Washington has not yet dispelled the dank fog of suspicion over the Caucasus. Georgia is still twitchy about Russian intentions.

  华盛顿的阳光还没有驱散高加索地区的疑云.格鲁吉亚依然警惕俄罗斯的企图.星期四格当局成功挫败一起军事哗变.

• American money managers have taken up the slack, but they too are becoming twitchy about their exposure, according to a market participant.

  美国基金经理人填补了缺少的那一块，但据一位市场参与者说，这些经理人也正在为他们风险敞口的扩大而心神不宁。

• Above all, Hamas is twitchy about relaxing its military grip over Gaza.

  更重要的是，哈马斯对放松加沙地带的军事控制而感到焦躁不安。

• Such easy access has made some companies twitchy about the level of freedom employees have to surf the internet.

  让一些公司对员工上网沖浪的自由度感到不安。

• For a city serving 13m people, public transport is inadequate and the government twitchy about anything smacking of civil society.

  对于一个有着1300万人口的城市，只使用公共交通工具是不够的，而政府又对民间社会的任何与污染有直接联系的事物都加以限制。

• Iran is far from alone in locking up bloggers. Governments across the Middle East are increasingly twitchy about their citizens「 online activities.

  并非只有伊朗逮捕博主，横跨中东的政府机构对于他们公民的网上活动愈发焦躁不安。

• But even if you are twitchy with crowds, you will find the square an unavoidable tangle of metro interchange, intriguing museums, dazzling hotels, top vistas and cultural venues.

  甚至在人流中你感觉烦躁不安的时侯，也会发现人民广场不可避免地成为一个地铁枢纽，四周有迷人的博物馆，炫目的大酒店，一流的景观和许多文化场景。

• If nations get twitchy about their oil supplies, how might they react if food, or water, are threatened?

  如果国家对于石油供应都这么担忧的话，那么面临食物或水源短缺威胁的时候，他们要如何应对呢？

• A stronger Europe policy in Washington might make easterners less twitchy about America」s dealings with Russia.

  如果华盛顿能提出一项更强硬的针对欧洲政策，这也许就能减轻因美国处理俄罗斯问题给东方人带来的阵痛。

• He was still twitchy and we awaited Ann「s return anxiously.

  他仍然焦虑不安，我们担心地等着安回来。

• We expect twitchy public companies to pull in, to cut investments at the first sign of trouble.

  我们希望那些心急的上市公司都能在第一时间内削减投资。

• Against a background of trade friction and currency volatility stemming from the differential stages of development of the world」s two largest economies, investors were twitchy about imbalances.

  当时美日两个全球最大的经济体处于不同的发展阶段，因而产生了贸易摩擦和货币波动，在此背景下，投资者对贸易失衡感到不安。

• If Finland, Russia's immediate neighbour, feels twitchy enough to think about joining NATO, that may ignite debate in Sweden.

  如不美观俄罗斯的近邻芬兰痛定思痛抉择插手北约，则会引起瑞典国内的争论。