- 1讓人捏一把冷汗的比賽、電影、故事（緊張到想咬指甲）。
A nail-biter is a story, film, or game that keeps you so tense you can hardly sit still — the kind where you do not know until the last moment who will win or what will happen. Sports writers love it for a very close match. The picture is simple: some people chew their when they are nervous, so a nail-biter is anything that makes you that nervous. The same words can also mean a person who has the habit of biting their nails; this entry is the exciting-story meaning, which grew out of that picture. It is informal, friendly English, common in reviews and headlines. You can also say a nail-biting finish, with the same idea.
組成A compound of nail + biter: someone, or something, that bites nails. The film-and-match sense is a picture — you bite your nails because the ending is so close.
同家族的字
- nailthe fingernail in the picture
- bitethe verb the second half comes from
- nail-bitingthe adjective: a nail-biting finish
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- nail biter
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。