1 circular segment

1 heartstrings

1 to excite

2 to thrill

3 exciting

4 thrilling

5 cliff-hanging

1 string (of a stringed instrument)

1 sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra

1 lit. to shoot from both sides (idiom)

2 fig. to display ambidexterity

3 to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession

4 to use both feet equally (football)

1 incessant playing of instruments and reciting of poems (idiom)

1 change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction

2 to dance to a different tune

1 lit. to see a bow reflected in a cup as a snake (idiom); fig. unnecessary suspicions

2 overly fearful

1 lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom)

2 fig. to bluff

3 to be all talk and no action

4 false bravado