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Nervous and at the same time, full of energy that has nowhere to go — before a match, an exam, a performance. The picture is probably a string wound tight with a key, like on an instrument. Used after 'be/get/feel': 'too keyed up to sleep'.
緊張又亢奮、繃緊神經
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
keyed upadj
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Nervous; worried.
- She was all keyed up about the interview.
- One trouble, he explained, is that dope pushers flock to neighborhoods where two gangs are at war, knowing they will find buyers among members of the gangs who are so keyed up that they welcome any kind of relaxation or who are just plain afraid.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。