"Nervous" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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紧张 jǐn zhāng nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
毛 máo hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
神经质 shén jīng zhì nervous / on edge / excitable / neurotic
神经过敏 shén jīng guò mǐn jumpy / nervous / oversensitive
畏怯 wèi qiè timorous / nervous
精神性 jīng shén xìng spirituality / mental / nervous / psychogenic
伈 xǐn nervous / fearful
提心吊胆 tí xīn - diào dǎn (idiom) nervous / fearful / on edge
生怕 shēng pà to fear / afraid / extremely nervous / for fear that / to avoid / so as not to
神经系统 shén jīng xì tǒng nervous system
神经衰弱 shén jīng shuāi ruò nervous exhaustion / neurasthenia / mental breakdown (often used to describe what is now understood to be clinical depression)
打鼓 dǎ gǔ to beat a drum / to play a drum / (fig.) to feel nervous
发慌 fā huāng to become agitated / to feel nervous
中枢神经系统 zhōng shū shén jīng xì tǒng central nervous system, CNS
交感神经 jiāo gǎn shén jīng sympathetic nervous system
畏首畏尾 wèi shǒu wèi wěi afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom) / ever fearful and nervous / afraid of the slightest thing
沉着 chén zhuó steady / calm and collected / not nervous
起毛 qǐ máo fluff / lint / to feel nervous
芒刺在背 máng cì zài bèi feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
痵 jì nervous start in sleep
恟 xiōng scared, nervous
少突胶质 shǎo tū jiāo zhì oligodendrocytes (Greek: cells with few branches), a type of cell in central nervous system / oligodendroglia
神经失常 shén jīng shī cháng mental aberration / nervous abnormality
精神崩溃 jīng shén bēng kuì nervous breakdown
植物神经系统 zhí wù shén jīng xì tǒng autonomic nervous system
副交感神经系统 fù jiāo gǎn shén jīng xì tǒng parasympathetic nervous system
自主神经系统 zì zhǔ shén jīng xì tǒng autonomic nervous system
交感神经系统 jiāo gǎn shén jīng xì tǒng sympathetic nervous system
犯怵 fàn chù to be afraid / to feel nervous
自律神经系统 zì lu:4 shén jīng xì tǒng autonomic nervous system
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