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Значения термина highly strung на английском

Being in a tense state.

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Использование термина highly strung на английском
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The boy being highly strung, a little criticism went a long way.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Those girls are highly organised, highly sensitive; their nerves are highly strung.
Spring Days
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Your nerves are too highly strung, and nerves play us strange tricks.
The Return Of The Soul / 1896
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Lister saw he tried to be cool, but thought him highly strung.
Lister's Great Adventure
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He was as highly strung as a racehorse at the gate.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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She may sound highly strung, but her demeanour is admirably grounded.
The Guardian
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Her sensitive highly strung nerves permitted these sharp alternations between despondency and hope.
The Wings of the Morning
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Heather was more highly strung, and responded to the darkening atmosphere around her.
The water room
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Such methodical work would calm nerves not often so highly strung.
A Sweet Girl Graduate
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He inherited in exaggerated degree his mother's highly strung nervous nature.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building / Being an Account of Mo...
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Such a highly strung, sensitive nature amounts almost to a curse.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
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My dear, Derek is very highly strung, and he's been ill.
The Freelands
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He is, as I have said, a highly strung character.
A journey: my political life
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Is there source material for this highly strung, camp creation?
The Guardian
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She had not expected the question and was highly strung.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
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It's hard to perform well when you are highly strung.
The Guardian
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