名词
词源
自1896年起有记载的“紧张的咒语”一意可能来自woollies,“紧张,窘迫”一意的方言词,可能指代的是穿着羊毛(wool)衣物时身上的瘙痒感。
释义
willy 的複數
willy 的词形
紧张感;恐惧感
Staying in the haunted house gave me the willies.
待在鬼屋里让我心里毛毛的。
I get the willies when I see closed doors. Even at work, where I am doing so well now, the sight of a closed door is sometimes enough to make me dread that something horrible is happening behind it, something that is going to affect me adversely.
1974, Joseph Heller, Something happened, page 3: