hanky-twist

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fret; to worry ineffectually.
    — There must in other fields be analogous forms of the brow-knitting and hanky-twisting which have accompanied the more narcissistic aspects of the 'literary turn' in anthropology (of which Writing Culture is least typical) and cognate fields.

词形变化

hanky-twists present,singular,third-person hanky-twisting participle,present hanky-twisted participle,past hanky-twisted past

词源

From the image of an anxious person twisting a handkerchief in the hands.
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