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 touchy ['tʌtʃi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 易怒的, 难以取悦的, 过于敏感的



    touchy
    touchier, touchiest
    [ adj ]
    1. quick to take offense

      2. <adj.all>
    2. difficult to handle; requiring great tact

      3. <adj.all>
      delicate negotiations with the big powers
      hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter
      a touchy subject


    Touchy \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.]
    Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
    [Colloq.]

    It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy
    about personal attacks. --Saintsbury.

    1. Thought for today: "People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust." _ E.B. White, American author and humorist (1899-1985).
    2. He refuses to talk about the movie now because it may be touchy with the military brass.
    3. The Massachusetts governor faced questions about whether he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv _ a very touchy issue in the Middle East.
    4. The climate right now is very touchy" with accounting firms, he said.
    5. Since then he has been at his best when going wildly over the top, but it seemed unlikely the BBC would tolerate this in an adaptation which was always going to be touchy.
    6. Credit Suisse has managed not only to increase its share of the lucrative Japanese convertible note sector in Switzerland, but also to successfully launch equity-linked deals for European borrowers in a year when stocks are a touchy subject.
    7. It's a touchy, time-consuming business involving intimate knowledge of the seller's needs, the interests of potential buyers and the possibilities for creative financing.
    8. President Reagan's decision to pay families of the 290 people killed in the U.S. downing of an Iranian airliner met fresh resistance on Capitol Hill today, with some lawmakers saying the gesture is premature and politically touchy.
    9. Asked Monday whether he reported that uneasiness to any of his superiors, or sought assurances from them, he answered: "That's sort of a touchy one.
    10. For male managers with female secretaries, the choice can be touchy.
    11. Rumors in Tokyo that the Bank of Japan was checking levels and in New York that the Fed had done the same kept participants touchy about piercing the psychological support level at 1.4600 marks.
    12. The projected bridge loan is a touchy issue for bankers.
    13. "But whether they should call in if they see a drug buy, for instance, that's a very touchy question," Albritton said. "We're still working on those questions." Rooney said Park District officials had better come up with the answers quickly.
    14. If you cannot deal with touchy, sensitive individuals, they say, you should not be in the music business.
    15. But by near-unanimous agreement the mood in the marketplace remained cautious and touchy.
    16. Parker Brothers, which makes the game, says it never takes outside suggestions because of "touchy" legal questions.
    17. He artfully avoided a showdown with touchy West German leaders on nuclear weapons and on the help German firms gave Libya in building a chemical weapons plant.
    18. Somehow, the district became entangled in four touchy issues _ abortion rights, life insurance for AIDS victims, homosexual rights and a residency requirement for city workers.
    19. But no direct mention was made of the touchy area of economic relations within the East bloc or the problems of East Germany, where an exodus of citizens and mass protests this month led the ruling Communists to replace aging leader Erich Honecker.
    20. West Germany raised the touchy issue of what to do with the short-range nuclear missiles, bombs and artillery shells that will remain after the intermediate-range weapons are removed.
    21. Complicating the debate are touchy questions of national prestige for the United States' closest allies.
    22. Standing behind a mahogany desk, wearing a dark business suit and fiddling with gold-framed glasses, the 65-year-old general calmly answered touchy questions on drug trafficking, political persecution, car theft and harboring international criminals.
    23. He asserted his desire to be elected president before giving a policy speech but addressed touchy issues, like his government-provided country house and his holding of both the party and government leadership.
    24. One touchy question is where to hold the direct Arab-Israeli talks that are supposed to follow the meetings that open next week in Madrid.
    25. It makes us reluctant to offend, especially to bring up the touchy subject of the war, which they refuse to call a war, in Northern Ireland."
    26. The Lazard fund is headed by Lester Pollack, a founding partner of Odyssey who has a long track record of dealing with touchy takeover situations.
    27. (Indeed, James Preston, chairman and chief executive officer of Avon Products Inc., on Friday said he has frozen his salary and lowered his bonus in exchange for stock options.) But the issue has been an especially touchy one at IBM for the past year.
    28. Despite the quick White House brushoff, the Iraqi radio announcement posed a touchy problem for President Bush.
    29. Feel for the Guy; He's the Boss's Son NEPOTISM IS a touchy subject at Financial Corp. of America.
    30. Young noted in his decision that the question is politically touchy.
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