| 单词 | brain-fretting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrain-fretting brain-fretting n. and adj. ΚΠ 1857 Graham's Illustr. Mag. Apr. 362/2 The best refuge from nervous irritability and brain-fretting..is a glass of Scotch ale before going to bed. 1862 J. Pycroft Agony Point (ed. 2) xxxviii. 339 The truth was, Tom Langley..had been so long sapping and exhausting his nervous energy by the predominance of one brain-fretting trouble—with meals not relished nor rest enjoyed for weeks and months—that he positively required the doctor to set him up again. 1959 P. Wayne tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust Pt. II i. 43 How, workers misjudging, Would these keep their state, With all their brain-fretting? < as lemmas |
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