nervous

Compared meaning: relating to nerves or the nervous system (adjective).

比较义项：与神经、神经系统有关的（形容词）。

• nervous 本词

  In this sense it appears almost only in the fixed phrase 'nervous system' (and terms built from it, like nervous tissue); it rarely modifies other nouns, and it more commonly means 'anxious'.

  这个义项几乎只出现在固定搭配“nervous system”（神经系统）及其派生说法（如nervous tissue神经组织）中，很少单独修饰其他名词；而且它更常见的意思是“紧张、焦虑的”。

  The nervous system carries signals from the brain to every part of the body.

  神经系统将信号从大脑传送到身体的每一个部位。

• neural

  The general technical term for anything related to nerves or the brain; it combines freely with many nouns, such as neural network, neural pathway or neural activity.

  这是与神经或大脑相关的通用技术词，可以自由修饰许多名词，例如neural network（神经网络）、neural pathway（神经通路）、neural activity（神经活动）。

  Neural activity in the brain increases dramatically while a person is learning something new.

  当一个人在学习新事物时，大脑中的神经活动会急剧增加。

Nervous and neural can both relate to nerves, but their use differs. Nervous appears almost only in 'nervous system' and rarely describes other nouns; it usually means anxious instead. Neural is the technical word for anything about nerves or the brain, as in neural network.

这两个词在“与神经／神经系统有关”这一义项上很接近，但nervous几乎只出现在“nervous system”这个固定搭配里，很少单独修饰别的名词；neural则可以自由修饰各种名词。这里不比较nervous更常见的另一义项——“紧张、焦虑的”。