bated
bated
adjective
adjective
- (用于短语 with bated breath)in great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly
悬念的；焦虑的；焦急的
he waited for a reply to his offer with bated breath.
他焦虑地等待着对他的提议的回复。
- late 16th cent.: from the past participle of obsolete bate 'restrain', from abate
- The spelling baited breath instead of bated breath is a common mistake. 14 per cent of citations for this idiom in the British National Corpus are for the incorrect spelling
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