With a lot of problems to solve, the newly-elected president felt like a cat on hot bricks.

由于有很多问题急待解决，新当选的总统急得像热锅上的蚂蚁。

The play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is named because of the sense of restlessness of the play and is evidently based on an older idiom “like a cat on hot bricks.”

《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》（Cat on a Hot Tin Roof）这出剧的名字就来源于剧情给人的无休无止的感觉，很明显，这种说法又源自一个更古老的俗语：好像热砖上的猫（like a cat on hot bricks）。

But I also remember how my last one at the same table is called, the name seems to be is in the mouth can not remember, I like the cat on hot bricks at a loss.

可是我却怎么也想不起来我的上一个同桌叫什么，名字似乎就在嘴边可就是想不起来，我就像热锅上的蚂蚁不知所措。

Like a cat on hot bricks.

像热锅上的蚂蚁。

All the trains have been suspended due to the storm and everybody is waiting in the railway station like a cat on hot bricks.

所有火车都因为风暴停开了，每个人都像热锅里的蚂蚁一样在火车站里等待。

What's wrong with you? You look like a cat on hot bricks.

你怎么了？你看上去就像是热锅上的蚂蚁。

He was like a cat on hot bricks before his driving test.

他面临驾驶考试，紧张的像热锅上的蚂蚁。

Pat was like a cat on hot bricks, for Betty had snatched her boyfriend's photo to pass it around the classroom.

帕特急如热锅上的蚂蚁，因为贝蒂抢走了她男朋友的相片给同学传看。

You are like a cat on hot bricks today. What's wrong with you?

看你今天一副局促不安的样子，出了什么事了？

Mr. B must be worried about something; he is like a cat on hot bricks today.

先生一定有什么烦恼的事，他今天局促不安。

He looked like a cat on hot bricks.

他急得像热锅上的蚂蚁。

He was so worried that he looked like a cat on hot bricks.

他焦急如焚，就象热锅上的蚂蚁。

You look like a cat on hot bricks.

你看上去就像是热锅上的蚂蚁。