to be anxious

基本解释

Nothing in particular seemed to be anxious to express itself through my life or writings.
没有什么特别的事急于通过我的生活或是作品表达。
Researchers like Pasricha have long noted that these people are also more likely than their peers to be anxious or depressed.
Pascricha很早就注意到这些人比其他同等的人更容易焦虑和抑郁。
By worrying about the wrong things, we do actual damage to our children, raising them to be anxious and unadventurous or, as she puts it, "hothouse, mama-tied, danger-hallucinating joy extinguishers."
为不必担心的事情惶惶不安，才是对孩子的一种真正的伤害，使他们变得焦虑、不敢冒险，或者如她所说，成为“长于温室、依赖母亲、总幻想着危险而抹杀快乐的一群人。”

We might be able to understand some of the weird, anxious energy behind this stanza if we think of the phrase that Milton uses here: the phrase "Infant God."
如果我们想一下这些句子，也许能够明白，这一段中古怪和焦急的心情,弥尔顿在这用到“圣婴“这个词语“
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