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Even so, as protesters gather, the government is getting twitchy.
即使如此，当抗议者聚集时，政府也变得焦躁不安。
Iran is far from alone in locking up bloggers. Governments across the Middle East are increasingly twitchy about their citizens' online activities.
并非只有伊朗逮捕博主，横跨中东的政府机构对于他们公民的网上活动愈发焦躁不安。
The parliamentary guards of those days—twitchy, unkempt and armed with only rudimentary weapons—were the nucleus of what later became Lithuania’s armed forces and security service.
当年的议会警卫们蓬头垢面、神情紧张，只配有简陋的武器，后来他们成为立陶宛军队和安全部门的核心。

He was sweating heavily and his thigh muscles were twitchy from the steepness of the climb.
NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero
Always twitchy at any hint of instability, it has plenty of reasons to fret.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
Removing their immunity would favour British firms, which are generally less twitchy about operating under other countries' laws.
ECONOMIST: Iraq

nervous and worried, sometimes showing this through sudden movements or movements that do not appear smooth or relaxed

If you are twitchy, you are behaving in a nervous way that shows you feel anxious and cannot relax.