nail-biter

常见例句

It wasn’t exactly a nail-biter: On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 63-37.
局面不算是紧张:星期四,参议院以63比37的表决,确认了埃琳娜.卡根为最高法院大法官。
The loss in Virginia, and a nail-biter in North Carolina yet to be decided, mean the Republican hold on the South is cracking.
弗吉尼亚州的失利，以及北卡罗来纳州的胶着状态意味着共和党在南部的阵营正在瓦解。
In what turned out to be an embarrassing nail-biter, Mr Bloomberg won by just 5%, days after polls had showed him to be ahead by double digits.
由此形成了一个尴尬紧张的局面，在民意调查表明他占有两位数优势后数天，布隆伯格仅胜出5％。

We were watching the Red Sox as we were flying home -- a nail-biter.
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Especially now, with Nasdaq at nail-biter heights and, more worrisome yet, with Greenspan's guns trained on stocks?
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Working in Utah County, most of my colleagues are BYU fans, excited at their nail-biter comeback the other night against Iona.
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