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战战兢兢zhàn zhàn jīng jīngbe apprehensive and cautious; be extremely mindful of one’s steps; be in a blue-funk; be in (/all of)a twitter; be in trembling uncertainty; feel quite jittery; gingerly; have one’s heart in one’s boots; have the jitters; jitterish; quake(/shake) in one’s shoes;tread on eggs; tremble with fear (/fright); watchful of possible pitfalls
❍ 温温恭人，如集于木。惴惴小心，如临于谷。～，如履薄冰。(《诗经·小雅·小宛》)We must be mild,and humble,|As if we were perched on trees. |We must be anxious and careful,|As if we were on the brink of a valley.|We must be apprehensive and cautious,|As if we were treading upon thin ice.
❍ 他～地走着瞧着。(杨植霖《王若飞在狱中》74) Han walked along gingerly and looked about him here and there.
❍ 但这一类人物总要日见其衰弱的，因为他终日将～，自己先已失了活气了。(《鲁迅选集》 Ⅱ—35) But such people always grow weaker every day,for they pass all their time in fear and trembling,and have lost the will to live.
❍ 老和尚听了，～，将葫芦里打满了酒，谢了老妇人，在屋后攀滕附葛上去。(《儒林外史》452) Quaking in his shoes,the abbot picked up the gourd which had been filled with wine,thanked the old woman and climbed the hill behind the house,pulling himself up by the creepers.
❍ 太宗～，相随二人，上得山岩，……(《西游记》140) Shaking and quaking,Taizong followed the two of them and ascended the slope.
❍ ～，如临深渊，如履薄冰。(《诗经·小雅·小旻》) With fear and caution should we tread,|Like men above some torrent’s bed.|Or those upon thin ice who go.
❍ 说着他解开腰带，从怀里掏出那两条小鱼和糍粑，～地捧到爹爹跟前。(金敬迈《欧阳海之歌》30) He opened his belt and took out the two small fish and the sticky rice balls,and offered them timidly to his father.
❍ 宋江～，怕失了体面，尖着指头，拿了一枚，就而食之，怀核在手。(《水浒全传》526) With the most meticulous care and fearing lest he lose his manners,Song Jiang put out his fingers and took up one date and put it to his mouth and ate of it and he hid the pit in his hand.
❍ 组织上把这个任务交给我的时候，一方面兴奋，可是说实话，另一方面也真是～，有些胆怯。(夏衍《考验》25) When I heard that the Party had picked me for this job,I was very glad,but rather worried,too. In fact,I felt quite jittery. 战战兢兢trembling with fear;with fear and trepidation;gingerly 战战兢兢zhàn zhàn jīnɡ jīnɡ战战：害怕的样子；兢兢：小心谨慎的样子。形容非常害怕而小心谨慎；形容因害怕而发抖。with fear and trepidation, have the jitters, be all nerves, run scared, tread as on eggs, in fear and trembling |