| 单词 | nervous wreck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnervous wreck nervous wreck n. colloquial a person or animal suffering from extreme nervousness; a person whose mental or emotional strength has declined. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > one who is nervous nervous1775 old maid1851 nervous wreck1871 jitterbug1934 1871 Ladies' Repository Mar. 231/1 A man may drink moderately but steadily all his life..but his daughters become nervous wrecks. 1906 W. James Let. 9 May (1920) II. 251 I didn't hear one pathetic word uttered at the scene of disaster, though of course the crop of ‘nervous wrecks’ is very likely to come in a month or so. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep i. vi. 110 He started at every noise. He was the very model of a nervous wreck. 1997 Your Horse Nov. 42/3 The horse was a nervous wreck when the farrier came and next time I rode out she reared in the middle of the road and lamed herself. < as lemmas |
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