high-strung

They weren't even ex-spouses, not an obstinate midwesterner and a high-strung Yankee, not a guy in his forties and a woman in her thirties, not two limited people who had argued for years about sex and money and furniture-none of this was relevant.

他们甚至不是前妻、前夫，不是一个顽固的中西部人和一个神经紧张的北方人，不是四十几岁的男人和三十几岁的女人，不是长年为性、金钱、家具而起争执的两个能力有限的人——这些都无关紧要。

The shortest time interval in the Martian universe is that between when you ask about a Mars family member and when someone on the astronomically high-strung public-relations team snaps to attention and rules the question out of order.

在这些火星人的世界里，他们最快速的反应就是神经高度紧张的公关人员在有人提出关于马尔斯家族成员的问题后表示这不符合规定。

He sat in stillness for a good while before he began to speak, and the audience-you could feel it happening, one row of high-strung New Yorkers at a time-became colonized by his stillness.

他静静地坐了好一阵子，然后开口说话。你感觉到正在发生这样的事情，这些激动的纽约人逐渐被他的沉静所统治。