Tightened

例句:

• Suppose that while one were bearing on pretty hard with a well-tightened string, in order to bring fire quickly, the point of the spindle should slip from its block. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now you have tightened your garters, the gypsy said approvingly. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She stopped for a moment, her arms tightened over her bosom, and she laughed to herself--a hard, harsh, angry laugh. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then his finger tightened on the trigger. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rudder-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Wemmick tightened his post-office and shook his head, as if his opinion were dead against any fatal weakness of that sort. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Her cheek grew burning hot against my neck, and her arms trembled and tightened round me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When the strings are tightened, the pitch rises; when the strings are loosened, the pitch falls. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He grinned at her, a cracked, stiff, too-tightened-facial-tendoned grin. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• For, now, the rope came in, tightened and strained to its utmost as it appeared, and the men turned heavily, and the windlass complained. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The sniper looked away but his lips tightened. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Simultaneously my free hand shot out for the black throat, just within reach, and the ebony finger tightened on the trigger. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• There were hard bulges under the canvas that tightened in the rain. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• This involved some slipping and consequent burning of belts; also, if the belt were prematurely tightened, the burning-out of the armature. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His knees tightened to bronze as he hung above her soft face, whose lips parted and whose eyes dilated in a strange violation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• My grip tightened upon the chain. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He turned and gathered her in his arMs. And feeling her soft against him, so perfectly and wondrously soft and recipient, his arms tightened on her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He tightened his grip upon the protesting professor and increased his speed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• When the motor was started, the armature was brought up to full revolution and then the belt was tightened on the car-axle, compelling motion of the locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Her hand tightened round my arm, and she looked anxiously at the gate before us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He tightened his hold in time to prevent her sinking on the floor, but she cried out in a terrible voice, 'I shall die if you hold me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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