| 释义 |
tensely, adv.|ˈtɛnslɪ|
[f. tense a. + -ly2.]
In a tense manner.
1. Tightly.
1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 16 The cellular part of the peritoneum..is tensely stretched over them. 1839Longfellow Beatrice xiv, Even as a cross-bow breaks, when 'tis discharged, Too tensely drawn the bow-string and the bow. 1846Hawthorne Mosses i. v, And girdled tensely by her virgin zone. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxiii, To keep the thong tensely stretched between his neck and the peak of the saddle.
2. fig. With intellectual, mental, or nervous strain or tension; intensely.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric., Digest 2 Mathematics (..perhaps this, in preference to every other science, teaches and habituates Mankind to think systematically and tensely). 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 220 We left,..deeply moved, and with nerves more tensely strung. 1893Nat. Observ. 23 Dec. 127/2 There are dozens most tensely anxious for the restitution. |