worry beads
基本解释
- 解愁数珠，安神念珠。
英汉例句
- “People give me a lot of credit but I just listen to what others say,” he says, tying a string of worry-beads around his thumb.
在其拇指上系着一串忘忧珠，他说到“人们给了我很多的赞扬但我只是听其他人说些什么罢了”。 - Amid the astonishing bustle in this ancient metropolis, where well-heeled bottle-blondes with cigarettes, headscarved women and mustachioed men holding worry beads weave through winding streets choked with traffic, that is clear.
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双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- a string of beads (= little decorative balls) that someone can play with in their hands when they are bored or worried
- a string of beads that when fingered or played with supposedly relieves nervous tension