喜樂美語
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    1) Describes a person who gets upset, offended, or easily, even over small things. 2) Describes a topic or subject that people have strong feelings about, so you need to be careful how you talk about it — a 'touchy subject.'

    (人)易怒的、敏感的; (話題)棘手的

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組成touch + -y (adjective ending, meaning 'having this quality')

同家族的字

  • touchthe base word this comes from

原始詞典資料3 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。

touchyadj/ˈtʌt͡ʃi/

  • 1

    Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.

    • It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
    • Eminent Americans are to be invited to direct by will their interment there; and in the case of Americans not so eminent as to be invited, but who have nevertheless expressed a wish to join the others, a committee will decide. It seems a touchy business all along...
  • 2

    Easily offended, oversensitive.

    • He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.
    • I can assure you, Mr Hosier, that other people are much more touchy about my blindness than I am.
  • 3

    informalInclined to engage in physical touch.

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。