The nervous strain or tension might wear you out and leave you with a sense of hopelessness.

紧绷的神经可能会使你崩溃，让你走投无路。

" My client has undergone a considerable nervous strain. I should wish it put on record that I do not consider him answerable for what he says" .

“我的委托人经历了相当大的神经紧张。我希望记录在案， 我认为他不对他所说的话负责” 。

I have devoted forty years of my life to missionary work in India. At first, I found it difficult to endure the terrible heat plus the nervous strain of the great task that stretched before me.

我将我生命中的四十年献给了印度的传教工作。起初，我发现很难忍受可怕的高温，加上摆在我面前的艰巨任务所带来的神经紧张。

If anyone had told me that I could eliminate three-fourths of all the time I spent in those worried conferences, and three-fourths of my nervous strain-I would have thought he was a wild-eyed, slap-happy, armchair optimist.

如果有人告诉我， 我可以消除四分之三的时间花在那些忧心忡忡的会议上， 消除四分之三的紧张——我会认为他是一个眼花缭乱、乐于助人的坐在纸上的乐观主义者。