"High-strung" nghĩa là gì?

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'High-strung' nghĩa là dễ xúc động, dễ xúc cảm, dễ bị kích động thần kinh (nervous and easily upset, at great tension, excitable, agitated, temperamental, sensitive, unstable; brittle, on edge, edgy, jumpy, jittery, restless, anxious, tense, stressed, overwrought, neurotic; worked up, uptight, twitchy, wired, wound up, het up, strung out, high-keyed).

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Vir Das 'high strung' about comedy show in New York.

A high-strung woman answered the phone and started accusing me of harassing her.

Nepal has become a high-strung society and the schism (sự phân li) between the people of hills and plains is widening by the day.

Both were sensitive and high-strung and too melancholic (u sầu, sầu muộn) to provide much solace for the other. Fanny wasn’t a tonic to Pierpont Morgan’s habitual moodiness, and he was doubtless much too busy to attend to her needs.

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