on tenterhooks

基本解释

He was on tenterhooks of expectation during our conversation.
在我们谈话时，他因有所期待而如坐针毡。 %。
Harry Potter fans are on tenterhooks before a press conference in which JK Rowling has promised to lift the veil on her next venture.
这场新闻发布会之前，哈迷们都寝食难安，因为JK罗琳承诺要在会上为她的下一步举动揭开面纱。
You can't imagine how worded I am, sister. We haven't got any good doctors nowadays, either. This illness is keeping me on tenterhooks.
婶子，你说我心焦不心焦?况且如今又没个好大夫，我想到他这病上，我心里倒象针扎似的。

The team waits on tenterhooks to discover the final figure to be revealed at 04:23 PST on Friday 1st February.
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Meanwhile Macedonia, which in 2001 almost descended into civil war between the majority Macedonians and minority ethnic Albanians, is on tenterhooks.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) certainly remains on tenterhooks with about 30% of futures dealers pricing in a refi-rate (refinancing rate) cut on Thursday.
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