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词汇 wrought up
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Definition of wrought up in English:

wrought up

adjective
  • predicative Upset and anxious.

    不安的,焦虑的

    she didn't get too wrought up about things

    她对这些事并不感到太多不安。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is because, even though they're trying to shoot to kill, their overbalance of hysterical emotion leaves them with hair-trigger tempers, often so wrought up that they're hotter than a two-dollar pistol.
    • All the emotions previously felt, then buried beneath the surface were wrought up again; old scars reopened.
    • The Massachusetts historian Mercy Otis Warren, a contemporary of these events, warned of ‘discontents artificially wrought up, by men who wished for a more strong and splendid government.’
    • But I want to intersperse the two because, if I keep doing dramatic things, they'll have to put me in a cage because I get so emotionally wrought up.
    Synonyms
    agitated, in a state of agitation, tense, stressed, overwrought, nervous, in a state of nerves, on edge, edgy, keyed up, strung out, jumpy, on tenterhooks, ruffled, flustered, flurried, perturbed, disquieted, fretful, fearful, frightened, scared, with one's heart in one's mouth, with one's stomach in knots, like a cat on a hot tin roof, shaking in one's shoes, on pins and needles, in a cold sweat
    British nervy
    informal with butterflies in one's stomach, jittery, twitchy, in a state, in a stew, in a sweat, in a flap, in a twitter, in a dither, all of a dither, all of a lather, het up, wired, uptight
    British informal strung up, stressy, windy, having kittens
    North American informal spooky, squirrelly, in a twit

Definition of wrought up in US English:

wrought up

adjectiveˌrôt ˈəp
  • predicative Upset and anxious.

    不安的,焦虑的

    she didn't get too wrought up about things

    她对这些事并不感到太多不安。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the emotions previously felt, then buried beneath the surface were wrought up again; old scars reopened.
    • The Massachusetts historian Mercy Otis Warren, a contemporary of these events, warned of ‘discontents artificially wrought up, by men who wished for a more strong and splendid government.’
    • This is because, even though they're trying to shoot to kill, their overbalance of hysterical emotion leaves them with hair-trigger tempers, often so wrought up that they're hotter than a two-dollar pistol.
    • But I want to intersperse the two because, if I keep doing dramatic things, they'll have to put me in a cage because I get so emotionally wrought up.
    Synonyms
    agitated, in a state of agitation, tense, stressed, overwrought, nervous, in a state of nerves, on edge, edgy, keyed up, strung out, jumpy, on tenterhooks, ruffled, flustered, flurried, perturbed, disquieted, fretful, fearful, frightened, scared, with one's heart in one's mouth, with one's stomach in knots, like a cat on a hot tin roof, shaking in one's shoes, on pins and needles, in a cold sweat
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