jittery的意思|jittery的解释-里氏词典

jittery ['dʒɪtərɪ]

a. 极度紧张不安的

jittery

[ adj ]

characterized by jerky movements

<adj.pert>

a jittery ride

being in a tense state

<adj.all>

jittery \jittery\ adj.
being in a tense state; easily upset or frightened; -- of a
person.

Syn: edgy, fidgety, high-strung, in suspense(predicate),
jumpy, nervous, nervy, overstrung, restive, uneasy,
uptight.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

Why? "The financial media tell them to." "The result is a jittery market that hangs on the arithmetic of obscure bureaucrats." _The crash of October 1987 so shattered confidence that most players don't know what to believe.
FRENCH money market rates were jittery yesterday, reflecting uncertainty about the immediate outlook for the franc, writes Stephanie Flanders. The nature of the pressure facing the franc makes it difficult for traders to know which way to jump.
Turnover came to HKDollars 3.4bn. SINGAPORE fell as jittery investors turned sellers on a report of a possible US military strike against Iraq.
"I'll probably vote for neither one," said a sister, Doris Westfall. "I'll let the rest of the county decide." It was the bang _ not the bite _ that had Jerry Dewitt jittery after tearing into an old vaccum cleaner bag.
Ice on the wings is the suspected cause. The accidents themselves would have been enough to make some passengers jittery about flying by turbo-prop aircraft.
The jittery market reaction and the speculation that Parkinson was involved reflected edginess about the government.
"The market is very, very jittery," said Peter Beutel, director of the energy group at Pegasus Econometric.
Equities have suffered a jittery week.
Several rumors, mostly unfounded, shook the jittery afternoon market, they said.
Officials fear that moving up Deputy Secretary McPherson wouldn't reassure the jittery financial markets.
Though Mr. Bush is scoring points with his counterattacks, even some jittery Republican lawmakers, eager to distance themselves from an administration they believe has lost momentum on the issue, are attacking the White House record on drugs.
Israelis are becoming increasingly jittery about Iraq's military expansion, worrying that Saddam Hussein will try to make good on threats to use chemical weapons against the Jewish state.
It doesn't look good." In the last week alone, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index has skidded nearly 85 points, or 3.7 percent, in jittery trading.
A number of specialty retailer stocks have shown weakness recently, as investors grow increasingly jittery about the entire sector in the face of soft August sales.
The Michael Jackson album comes at a time when the moods of music retailers and record labels range from jittery to desperate: Sales fell about 10% in the first six months, partly as a result of a dearth of star albums.
The Conservatives had a jittery start in the four Atlantic Maritime provinces, but did well enough in central Quebec and Ontario to get at least the 148 seats necessary for a majority, the CBC said.
Investors holding shares in export-oriented electronics companies, for example, become jittery when they see the dollar falling against the yen, because it makes exports more expensive.
In other commodity markets yesterday: GRAINS AND SOYBEANS: Soybean futures prices rose as jittery traders jumped on a rumor of a big Soviet order for U.S. soybean meal.
LOOKING FOR a colorful way to communicate financial stability in these jittery times?
Also, while Mr. Abboud declared Wednesday that "the offense begins today," his advisers and federal officials said that was designed to reassure jittery customers and employees.
Stock prices slipped today as the market remained jittery over the tension in the Middle East and the resulting jump in oil prices.
As the economy deteriorates and the Tigre People's Liberation Front moves ever southward toward Addis Ababa, residents of the capital are getting jittery.
Jeffrey Feiner, a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst, said recent slippage in consumer confidence, reflecting uncertainty about economic conditions and jittery financial markets, portends possibly rougher times for retailers.
"There's been a jittery feel about the entire technology group and people were looking for a reason to sell.
Bargain prices and generous inducements will be the keys to success for $10 billion worth of securities the government and Eurotunnel are trying to sell in a jittery market.
Traders said the Fed intervention wasn't particularly aggressive, but was sufficient to give pause to a market that was already jittery over the dollar's steep climb of the past few weeks.
The market is growing jittery about Eurotunnel.
"After the market failed yesterday, traders were very jittery," said Mickey Luth, soybeans analyst in Chicago for Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
The effect of the rumors, however, has been to make the market jittery about taking the dollar higher, traders said.
Some, however, are jittery about the effect on inflation.

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