tense

1 She did not know whether he was using the past tense because his daughter no longer danced or because he no longer had a daughter, and she feared the answer.

2 I tense up—he hasn’t touched me since before our fight—and he releases me.

3 Gary pipes up, "Me too," and I'm tensing my fists, my jaw locked, and I just want to scream, but instead I say, "Whatever, I'm going home," because / don't have a fake ID.

4 He’s got Renault there, pale and tense as if he’s facing a firing squad, and Janza, the animal, a chained animal waiting to spring loose.

5 Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

6 Why are you so tense?

7 My muscles tense, but I keep a smile on my face.

8 I was tense, as usual, turning my sugar to caramel.

9 These last few weeks, he had become tense and reclusive, but that night, he had been at ease.

10 Will jumped up and seized her shoulders, and felt her tense and trembling.

11 “I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, “It’s okay, Gus. It’s okay. It is. It’s okay, you hear me?”

12 With each step, another muscle in my body tenses.

13 If you’re scared of both the past and the future, having a dismal record in the former and no ideas for the latter, you can always just wallow in the present tense of demonstrative rhetoric.

14 Henry’s hand is tense on the program in his lap.

15 Hideo’s shoulders are straight, and his posture is calm—but his eyes are tense, far away from here.

16 The present international situation remains tense and turbulent.

当前的国际局势依然紧张动荡.

17 He was speaking in the past tense even though she was still holding the gourd.

18 I'm tense from the ride, and I’d like an opportunity to knock some sense into one of these boys.

19 Explain and illustrate the main use of the present perfect tense.

解释并举例说明现在完成时态的用法.

20 She gave my knee a squeeze and for a second I kind of tensed up, fearing the boy-fondled-by-drunken-depressed-widow worst.

1 焦虑的

hung up wound up anxious distressed uneasy oppressed strained frayed distracted hunted suspenseful angsty stressed out disconcerted strung up tensed up

2 拉紧的

tight taut stiff strained strict bracing

3 变紧

tighten fasten

4 抽紧

tighten strain purse

5 时态

temporal time matter

6 使拉紧

tension

7 变得紧张

sour

8 易怒的

fiery edgy irritable snappy prickly spiky peppery fractious ratty crabby irascible apoplectic choleric bilious peevish snappish tetchy quick-tempered querulous waspish splenetic liverish on a short fuse on edge

9 坐立不安

fiddle-footed yantsy restless fidgety antsy dithered uneasy uneasily fidget dither fantod in a stew

10 担心

concerned afraid scared worried anxious fearful uneasy fraught apprehensive alarmed lest concern worry anxiety grief suspense apprehension collywobbles indaba fear alarm sweat ruffle be in a sweat about be in a sweat get in a sweat about get in a sweat tear apart tear up

11 易怒

fiery edgy irritable snappy prickly spiky peppery fractious ratty crabby irascible apoplectic choleric bilious peevish snappish tetchy quick-tempered querulous waspish splenetic liverish irascibility dyspeptic on a short fuse on edge

12 令人紧张的

intimidating high-pressure nail-biting uncongenial chill

13 时式

go vogue garb

14 僵直

stiffly

15 紧张

all-overish intense erect tonic charged hyper drawn strained taut high-pitched hab-dabs all-overs stress twitter stretch tone strain tension thrill twitch tightness twit tizzy tonicity tensity clutch dither string bother brace fray outstretch put a strain on at high pressure in a pucker with butterfly have butterflies in stomach concentrated edgy tensile breathless jumpy intensity flutter fluster rattle tauten have butterflies be in into a lather stiff lively corded uptight strung screwed-up stressed-out atwitter tensional tensive tensely tautly fuss lather intension tenseness tautness tonus whim-wham key up on the strain tensed up tense up wound up stressed out wired strenuous tremulous unstrung nervousness collywobbles nerviness twitchiness unnerve skittish keyed suspensive state jitter snit scare rack on the stretch be on toes hard tight windy trembly skittery electricity string up tie in knots on edge hyped up highly strung stressful thrilling uneasy twitchy flustered rattled high-strung strung up ruffle be get into a state be in into a state electric electrical hectic pumped sulphurous agonistic turgor stretchability swell constrain buck fever

16 绷紧的

tight stiff brittle corded nervous taut

17 担心的

concerned worried uneasy fraught apprehensive

18 神经紧张

nervous jittery twitchy nervy overwrought twittery nerve heebie-jeebies toey

19 绷紧

tight stiff brittle corded tighten wind strain tension brace stiffen knot flex clench nervous tightening nervousness tenseness tautness tauten stretch taut flexion set flat whipcord takeup

20 感到紧张

have butterflies

21 一触即发

touchy supersensitive touch-and-go hair-trigger toucher be at swords' points

22 使紧张

tensive stress string strain key up tension agitate unstring rattle string up tie in knots

23 令人不安的

disturbing frightening upsetting disconcerting agonizing disquieting

24 生硬

raw stiff crude immature ponderously stiffness immaturity rawness crudity literalness stiffen as stiff as a poker

25 焦虑

hung up wound up stressful anxious distressed uneasy oppressed strained frayed distracted hunted suspenseful angsty stressed out disconcerted strung up nervously anxiety tension fuss suspense agitation angst nervousness hang-up uneasiness dysphoria disquiet concern worry stress distress disturb oppress agitate disconcert tensed up be get into a state be in into a state be get into a lather be in into a lather tear your hair out weigh down

26 紧

close hard fast quick tight skimpy pinch tightness snug firmness chock

27 紧张的

intense erect tonic charged hyper drawn strained taut high-pitched concentrated edgy tensile breathless jumpy stiff lively corded uptight strung screwed-up stressed-out atwitter tensional tensive tensed up wound up stressed out twitchy windy anxious wired tremulous jiggy squirrelly aflutter unrelaxed trepidatious adrenalized strenuous unstrung skittish keyed suspensive hard tight trembly skittery on edge hyped up highly strung thrilling uneasy flustered rattled high-strung strung up electric electrical hectic pumped sulphurous agonistic

28 不自然

plastic violent artificial stiff affected forced unhealthy unnatural uncanny pathological strained studied contrived practiced constrained galvanic mannered labored factitious farfetched disnatured nonnatural unnaturally theatrically self-consciously stiltedly artificiality denaturalize against nature

29 生硬的

raw stiff crude immature

30 紧绷的

stiff

31 紧的

close hard fast quick tight skimpy scanty tight-fitting snug

32 拉紧

tight taut strain stiff strained take-up striction tighten tauten stretch frap tension tail strict rack brace draw take the strain bracing gather takeup

33 时间

when time hour space chance sand time-interval

34 神经紧张的

nervous jittery twitchy nervy overwrought twittery toey

35 使绷紧

tension tighten brace

36 时

time minute temporal hour

37 不自然的

plastic violent artificial stiff affected forced unhealthy unnatural uncanny pathological strained studied contrived practiced constrained galvanic mannered labored factitious farfetched disnatured nonnatural against nature

38 一触即发的

touchy supersensitive touch-and-go hair-trigger

39 心烦意乱

shook-up sick upset distraught unglued nohow tormentingly lather whir overset jangle shake shatter vex in a taking do nut

40 紧绷

stiff stretch bring to the stretch

41 令人不安

disturbing frightening upsetting disconcerting agonizing disquieting frighteningly