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 nervous ['nɚvəs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 神经紧张的, 不安的, 神经的

[医] 神经的; 神经质的, 神经过敏的




    nervous
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to the nervous system

      2. <adj.pert>
      nervous disease
      neural disorder
    2. easily agitated

      3. <adj.all>
      a nervous addict
      a nervous thoroughbred
    3. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

      4. <adj.all>
      spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
      cast anxious glances behind her
      those nervous moments before takeoff
      an unquiet mind
    4. excited in anticipation

      5. <adj.all>
    5. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

      6. <adj.all>


    Nervous \Nerv"ous\ (n[~e]rv"[u^]s), a. [L. nervosus sinewy,
    vigorous: cf. F. nerveux. See {Nerve}.]
    1. Possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. ``Nervous
    arms.'' --Pope.

    2. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by
    strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a
    nervous writer.

    3. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as,
    nervous excitement; a nervous fever.

    4. Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited;
    subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the
    nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.

    Poor, weak, nervous creatures. --Cheyne.

    5. Sensitive; excitable; timid.

    6. Apprehensive; as, a child nervous about his mother's
    reaction to his bad report card.
    [PJC]

    Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest
    against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics,
    because it is nervous about the land. --M. Arnold.

    {Nervous fever} (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by
    great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by
    delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc.

    {Nervous system} (Anat.), the specialized co["o]rdinating
    apparatus which endows animals with sensation and
    volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three
    systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the
    peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the
    sympathetic. See {Brain}, {Nerve}, {Spinal cord}, under
    {Spinal}, and {Sympathetic system}, under {Sympathetic},
    and Illust. in Appendix.

    {Nervous temperament}, a condition of body characterized by a
    general predominance of mental manifestations. --Mayne.

    1. For nervous Conservative backbenchers with an eye on the next election, that might be no bad thing.
    2. Sears Chairman Edward A. Brennan said: "We're not terribly nervous about the fourth quarter.
    3. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key index plunged after nervous fluctuations today, while the dollar continued its upward trend against the Japanese yen.
    4. Swallowing the berries can lead to diarrhea, vomiting and depression of the central nervous system, the Poison Control Center says.
    5. In the church meeting, Mr. Probert asks the president of the project's tenants' association, a slim nervous woman, to ask the borough council to kick out the drug dealers.
    6. Since the Oct. 19 stock market crash, nervous investors have poured a record $32.3 billion into money-market mutual funds from stocks and other investments.
    7. "It was a very nervous day," said John Geary, partner of the Big Board specialist firm Ziebarth, Geary.
    8. The suspension of quarterly dividends, which had been four cents a share on Wang's Class B common stock and 2.75 cents a share on Class C stock, was seen as a move to conserve cash and placate nervous bankers.
    9. 'With the setting up of all these thermal units, you'll need a lot of oil' he says. Despite the government's commitment, some analysts are still nervous over possible setbacks.
    10. Other analysts say the company's aggressive reputation makes many foreign fund managers nervous.
    11. "Don't be nervous; you're among friends," Wade told them. "And when I say friends, I mean friends.
    12. Massey recalled that when Tasnadi was about to take his citizenship test in 1968, "Charlie was a nervous wreck.
    13. "Generally speaking, I think the population is very nervous about the military raising its head again," said Yukihiko Ikeda, a member of parliament from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and son of a former prime minister.
    14. Aran shares closed unaltered at 16p. Rosehaugh shivers The arrival of a receiver at Rosehaugh sent shivers through the property market with selected stocks being marked back in nervous trading.
    15. Investors remain too nervous about potential congressional and Bush administration measures to boost economic growth, however, to extend into the riskier 30-year Treasury bonds, the trader says.
    16. In Tokyo, share prices finished moderately lower in quiet trading as investors appeared to grow less nervous about currency rate changes and Tuesday's decline on Wall Street as the day went on.
    17. But it also means he has to convince nervous retailer and skeptical employees that he's interested in a long-term relationship and not a fast buck.
    18. Prices soared Monday because of hot, dry weather throughout much of the Corn Belt, and thundershowers that occurred in parts of Iowa and Minnesota during yesterday's session made traders nervous, analysts said.
    19. Just when it looked like the Nasdaq over-the-counter market might be firming, nervous investors dumped shares of the biggest nonfinancial issues and sent the market tumbling.
    20. Wholesale unleaded gasoline soared more than 2 cents a gallon in choppy, nervous trading Thursday on technical factors and anticipation that OPEC members may soon reach a formal agreement for slashing oil production.
    21. Tonight's highlight is the keynote address by Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, a fiery populist who allowed that she was "terribly nervous" about her prime-time speech.
    22. The markets were jolted by uncertainty over the government's exchange-rate policy and were highly nervous that a resulting steep decline in the British pound would prompt the government to push up interest rates above their 8-year high of 15 percent.
    23. Retailers, normally nervous prior to the important Christmas season, are even more worried this year because of the shakeup in financial markets and its implications for the economy.
    24. But Mr. Sulya also said the Campeau story was merely the excuse some already nervous investors needed.
    25. Market participants say investors are not only licking their wounds following the turbulence last week, but they have also been made nervous by two events in West Germany.
    26. The coincidence of the election aside, it seems the market is nervous about the Pounds 465m flotation of Waste Management International.
    27. Bolton explains: 'There is a hole in the order book after 1997 which makes many people nervous, but the company is piling up cash.'
    28. Traders said the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait set the stock index tumbling, as investors became nervous about the Japanese economy.
    29. The 200th edition seems to have been received well but I'm now nervous about 1993 and people being let down.
    30. BANK EMPLOYEES, meanwhile, are getting more nervous; 51% of more than 58,000 workers in 52 banks surveyed by Human Resource Services felt less secure than a year ago.
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