Tense
[tens] or [tɛns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time.
(verb.) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; 'he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up'.
(verb.) become tense, nervous, or uneasy; 'He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room'.
(verb.) increase the tension on; 'alternately relax and tense your calf muscle'; 'tense the rope manually before tensing the spring'.
(adj.) taut or rigid; stretched tight; 'tense piano strings' .
(adj.) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') .
(adj.) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension .
康妮手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
(a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Tight, stretched, strained, TAUGHT, rigid, not loose, not lax.
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解釋/意思:
adj. strained to stiffness: rigid.—adv. Tense′ly.—ns. Tense′ness state of being tense; Tensibil′ity Tensil′ity quality of being tensile.—adjs. Ten′sible Ten′sile capable of being stretched.—ns. Ten′sion act of stretching: state of being stretched or strained: strain: effort: strain in the direction of the length or the degree of it: mental strain excited feeling: a strained state of any kind; Ten′sion-rod a rod in a structure holding together different parts; Ten′sity tenseness: state of being tense.—adj. Ten′sive giving the sensation of tenseness or stiffness.—n. Ten′sor a muscle that tightens a part.
n. time in grammar the form of a verb to indicate the time of the action.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You found---- Holmes's face grew tense with anxiety. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We are in the present tense, now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- With tense nerves he sat leaning forward in his chair, but suddenly he relaxed and dropped back, smiling. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- After I ceased there was tense silence, as all eyes were riveted upon Tal Hajus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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