一喜一憂

Meaning

1. nvsvi
   alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns; oscillating between optimism and pessimism

Example sentences

• 父の病状は一喜一憂です。

  My father's condition seems to improve one moment, but the next moment he sinks again.

• 表面的な物事に一喜一憂する人が人を管理する立場につくべきではない。

  Somebody who wavers between hope and fear over superficial things should not be appointed to a management position.

• 彼は試合の結果に一喜一憂している。

  He is now glad, now sad at the progress of the game.