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twitchy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++twitch·y /ˈtwɪtʃi/ adjective  NERVOUSbehaving in a nervous way because you are anxious about something 焦急的;紧张的 I was very twitchy about the way things would turn out. 我非常担心事情会怎样发展。
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twitchySkinheads, on the other hand, are nervous and twitchy.The charity world is getting twitchy.She felt twitchy about that vile Angel who hovered shadowy in the background, waiting to perform some dreadful mischief.Lynda Steadman is delightfully twitchy and broken as Annie, the more sensitive friend.She took it all in good humour, though Stuart seemed as twitchy as a rabbit's septum.Frankie's twitchy legs and itchy scalp pulled his thoughts back to the present.twitchy legsBut these days the Tories are an unusually twitchy lot.a twitchy mood
twitch·y adjectiveChineseSyllable
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twitchy
twitchy /ˈtwɪtʃi/ adjective
behaving in a nervous way because you are anxious about something:
    I was very twitchy about the way things would turn out.


twitchyBrE /ˈtwɪtʃi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtwɪtʃi/ 🔊 adjective (informal) nervous or anxious about sth 神经紧张的;焦急的;焦虑不安的 SYN jittery making sudden quick movements 抽搐的;抽动的;痉挛的