单词	tense
释义	tense1 adjectivetense2 nountense3 verb tensetense1 /tens/ ●●○ AWL adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINtense1 Origin: 1600-1700 Latin ‘stretched’, from the past participle of tendere; ➔ TEND Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES tense muscles Her tone was anxious now, her face tense. I always feel tense after driving all day. I can feel you're really tense in your lower back. In the tense silence that followed, the boys fidgeted uneasily. In the program, the hostages re-live the tense days they spent under guard in East Africa. Mary's problems at work were making her tense and irritable. The atmosphere in the waiting room was extremely tense. The journey through the mountains went well even though there were a few tense moments when the car skidded. The negotiations became increasingly tense as the weeks went by. There was a tense silence, and then everyone began to laugh. When someone mentioned Andy's time in prison, the atmosphere grew tense. Williams looked a little tense before the game. You seem awfully tense - why don't you have a drink and try to relax? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At night I fall into bed weary instead of tense. Faced with this living miscegenation, I had spells of getting all minimalist, which rendered things a bit tense. His shoulders felt tense and the top of the range hissed as a tear escaped from his eyes. I tried parries, but they were tight, tense, and ineffective. So Allen lay tense and still, watching. They stared silently at the impenetrable curtain surrounding the ship, and each face was tense with anxiety. When you are tense it is hard to relax but that is just what you need to do. Thesaurus THESAURUS► nervous worried or a little frightened about something and unable to relax: · Kelly was so nervous about her exam that she couldn’t sleep.· It makes me nervous when you drive that fast. ► tense worried and unable to relax in a way that makes you get angry or upset easily: · Mary’s problems at work were making her tense and irritable. ► uneasy nervous because you feel that something bad might happen, so that you are unable to relax until the danger has passed: · I began to feel uneasy when he still hadn’t phoned by 11 o'clock. ► on edge if you are on edge or your nerves are on edge, you feel nervous because you are worried about what might happen: · My nerves were on edge, waiting for the results of the test.· Redundancies and other work upheavals have put employees on edge. ► neurotic nervous and anxious in a way that is not normal or reasonable: · She’s completely neurotic about food hygiene.· a neurotic mother ► edgy/jumpy/jittery nervous because you are worried about what might happen: · Investors are a little edgy about the financial markets these days.· There was a lot of pressure on the team tonight and that’s why they were a little jumpy. ► highly-strung British English, high-strung American English becoming nervous or upset easily because that is your character: · Like many musicians, he’s very sensitive and highly-strung. ► be a nervous wreck to feel extremely nervous and unable to relax: · After 10 months of teaching, I was a total nervous wreck. ► have butterflies (in your stomach) informal to feel nervous about something that you are going to do very soon because it is important and you want to do it well: · Actors often have butterflies before going on stage. Longman Language Activatora situation in which people feel nervous► tense a tense situation makes people feel nervous and anxious, especially because they are worried about what might happen next or what someone might do: · There was a tense silence, and then everyone began to laugh.· The negotiations became increasingly tense as the weeks went by.· The journey through the mountains went well even though there were a few tense moments when the car skidded.· When someone mentioned Andy's time in prison, the atmosphere grew tense. ► strained a situation that is strained makes people feel nervous, embarrassed, and uncomfortable, and unable to behave naturally: · After the argument there was a strained silence.· Since my father's affair things have been very strained between him and my mother.· The strained atmosphere at the dinner made it difficult to chat with people. ► uneasy a situation that is uneasy makes people feel a little nervous because they are uncertain about what will happen next or what someone might do: · After the speech there was an uneasy silence and nobody clapped.· Since the two sides declared a ceasefire, there has been an uneasy calm throughout the region. ► unsettling an unsettling situation makes you feel slightly nervous and unable to relax or concentrate completely: · The weather forecast was unsettling - we had nowhere to go if a really big storm hit.· Greenspan delivered more unsettling news about the economy the next day. ► nailbiting a nailbiting situation is so exciting that it makes you nervous, especially because you are waiting for a result or decision: · Waiting to become a father is one of the most nailbiting situations a man can face.nailbiting finish: · With three minutes left, the World Cup Final is set for a nailbiting finish. ► nerve-wracking a nerve-wracking situation makes you feel very nervous because it is difficult or frightening: · Your first appearance on stage is always a nerve-wracking experience· Trying to keep track of all those little kids at the same time must be pretty nerve-wracking. ► charged a charged situation or subject makes people feel very nervous and is likely to cause arguments or violence: · Abortion is still a very emotionally charged issue in the U.S.highly charged: · In a highly charged press conference, Armstrong defended his attack on the children.charged atmosphere: · The already charged atmosphere erupted into violence when police told the crowd to disperse. nervous► nervous · Bill looked nervous, and I could see his hands were shaking.nervous about · Kelli was so nervous about her exam that she couldn't sleep.· I'm a little nervous about leaving the kids at home all alone.· Many investors are nervous about their investments after the recent drop in the stock market.make somebody nervous · It makes me nervous when you drive that fast. ► tense so worried about something that you cannot relax, and you easily get angry or upset: · I always feel tense after driving all day.· Mary's problems at work were making her tense and irritable.· You seem awfully tense - why don't you have a drink and try to relax? ► jumpy/jittery very nervous so that you are unable to relax and are easily surprised by sudden sounds or movements: · The dogs are jumpy tonight - I wonder if there's something outside.· She was getting jumpy thinking about the trip.· I was feeling extremely jittery - all I wanted was to leave the bar as quickly as possible.· Investors are jittery due to uncertainty about interest rates. ► on edge if someone is on edge or if their nerves are on edge , they are nervous and likely to become angry or upset very easily: · Jerry had had a hard day and his nerves were on edge.· As reports of robberies continued to appear in the press, the whole community was increasingly on edge. ► uneasy nervous that something bad might happen, so that you feel anxious and unable to relax until the danger has passed: · There's something I don't trust about him. He makes me feel very uneasy.· It was the same uneasy feeling he'd experienced that morning when he saw the police car outside.uneasy about: · Rebecca was already beginning to feel uneasy about accepting the stranger's offer of a ride. ► panicky very nervous and anxious about something, especially when you are in a dangerous situation that you cannot control or change: · I began to feel panicky, sure that I was going to miss the train.· "Is he really dead?" Abe asked in a panicky voice.· After waiting for him for two hours, Lorna got panicky and called the police. making you feel worried► worrying also worrisome American · The possibility that I might lose my job is very worrying.· It must have been a worrying time for you.it's worrying that/when etc · It's always a little worrisome when a company is praised for making a smaller loss than expected.· a worrying upsurge in violence ► stressful a stressful job or situation makes you feel worried and tired all the time, for example because you have too many problems or too much work to do: · Looking after small children can be very stressful.· What's the most stressful aspect of your job?· It was a stressful time for the whole family. ► anxious : anxious time/wait/hours etc a time during which you feel worried and nervous, because the situation is dangerous and you do not know what is going to happen: · For one anxious moment, I thought the rope was going to break.· After an anxious wait, Audrey was told her father had died. · In the anxious days that followed, Henry tried to keep his mind off his results. ► alarming changing or increasing in a way that is worrying and frightening: · Even more alarming is the increase in child porn sites on the Internet.· an alarming rise in crimeit's alarming that/when etc: · It's alarming to think how many people are at risk.alarming rate/number: · The epidemic is spreading at an alarming rate.· There are no easy answers to the alarming number of mass killings taking place in our cities.in alarming numbers: · The young girls she treats in alarming numbers are the victims of broken homes and parental neglect.at an alarming rate: · Agricultural open space is disappearing at an alarming rate.with alarming frequency/regularity: · Baggage seems to go missing with alarming frequency on these flights. ► tense a situation or time that is tense makes you feel worried and nervous that something bad might happen at any time: · The atmosphere in the waiting room was extremely tense.· In the program, the hostages re-live the tense days they spent under guard in East Africa.· In the tense silence that followed, the boys fidgeted uneasily.tense face/expression etc: · Her tone was anxious now, her face tense. ► niggling : niggling feeling/worry/doubt etc something that continues to worry you, even though you do not really want to think about it: · The suspect seemed to have proved his innocence, but a niggling doubt remained in my mind.· I couldn't shake off a niggling worry. Had I forgotten to lock the office door? ► alarmist making people worried about dangers that do not really exist: · I do not wish to be alarmist, but the situation in the region is worse than it has been in many months.· The ambassador dismissed these views as excessively alarmist.· alarmist propaganda Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► tense situation/atmosphere/moment etc  Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a strained/tense atmosphere (=not relaxed)· As soon as I went in, I was aware of the tense atmosphere in the room. ► tense/tighten your muscles (=make them more tight)· He tensed his stomach muscles, ready for the blow. ► a tense silence · There was a brief, tense silence. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► atmosphere · Bored or tense atmosphere. 2.· I can vividly remember the tense atmosphere prevailing amongst all Washington crews during December 1952 and January 1953.· I felt a tense atmosphere of anxiousness build between us.· Humour, too, can be a way of breaking a tense atmosphere.· There was suddenly a very, very tense atmosphere.· The generally tense atmosphere also gave rise to perceptual errors. ► moment · It was a tense moment for everyone because he couldn't control where he landed or his speed.· It is a single-elimination tournament, which should provide many tense moments.· It was a long, tense moment as they adjusted the ropes and wrestled with the banner in their precarious position.· They looked horrible and gave their fans some unnecessarily tense moments.· It was a tense moment but, luckily, he said yes so the seven-part series was under way.· It's a tense moment not helped by the failure of the electrical apparatus to fire the devices.· Words are exchanged, and there is a tense moment or two. ► silence · The meal was held virtually in tense silence.· So they sat in tense silence together, reading.· The scary bits created tense silence, while relieved cheers followed the good moments.· Laura and I sat in tense silence, listening to the creak of the stairs.· Inside the room, tense silence reigned.· It was a long drive from the airport, made tedious by the unnatural, tense silence in the cab.· When he sat down again there was a long, tense silence.· Everyone worked in tense silence, concentrating on their own particular task. ► situation · Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation.· You can see it in their eyes -- years of tense situations and busting cocaine mules.· A tense situation prevailed for the vote, as 5,000 troops and riot police stood in a state of preparedness.· Chastising By chastising a horse, we only make a tense situation worse. Word family WORD FAMILYnountensenesstensionadjectivetenseverbtenseadverbtensely 1a tense situation is one in which you feel very anxious and worried because of something bad that might happen → tensiontense situation/atmosphere/moment etc Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.► see thesaurus at nervous2feeling worried, uncomfortable, and unable to relax OPP  relaxed:  Is anything wrong? You look a little tense.3unable to relax your body or part of your body because your muscles feel tight → tension:  Massage is great if your neck and back are tense. She tried to relax her tense muscles.—tensely adverb—tenseness noun [uncountable] tense1 adjectivetense2 nountense3 verb tensetense2 ●●○ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINtense3 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French tens ‘time, tense’, from Latin tempus ‘time’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Again, the rewriting task will require changing tenses. Another section is devoted entirely to grammar drills, including the use of prepositions, comparatives, negatives and verb tenses. In Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose gets round this problem by using non-realized tenses and moods. Switching from the future to the present tense has other advantages. The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense. word sets WORD SETS► Grammar abbr., abbreviate, verbabbreviation, nounabstract noun, nounaccusative, nounactive, adjectiveadj., adjective, nounadv., adverb, nounadverbial, adjectiveaffix, nounantecedent, nounapposition, nounarticle, nounaspect, nounattributive, adjectiveaux., auxiliary, nounauxiliary verb, nouncase, nouncausal, adjectiveclause, nouncollective noun, nouncommon noun, nouncomparative, adjectivecomparison, nouncomplement, nouncomplex, adjectivecompound, nounconcord, nounconcrete noun, nounconditional, adjectiveconditional, nounconj., conjugate, verbconjugation, nounconjunction, nounconnective, nounconstruction, nouncontinuous, adjectivecontraction, nouncoordinate, adjectivecoordinating conjunction, nouncopula, nouncountable, adjectivecount noun, noundative, noundeclension, noundefinite article, noundemonstrative, adjectivedemonstrative pronoun, noundependent clause, noundeterminer, noundirect discourse, noundirect object, noundirect speech, noundisjunctive, adjectiveditransitive, adjectivedouble negative, noun-ed, suffixending, noun-est, suffix-eth, suffixfeminine, adjectivefinite, adjectiveform, nounfunction word, nounfuture, adjectivegender, noungenitive, noungerund, noungradable, adjectivegrammar, noungrammarian, noungrammatical, adjectivehistoric present, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounimperative, adjectiveimperative, nounimpersonal, adjectiveindefinite article, nounindependent clause, nounindicative, nounindicative, adjectiveindirect discourse, nounindirect object, nounindirect speech, nouninfinitive, nouninflect, verbinflected, adjectiveinflection, noun-ing, suffixintensifier, nouninterjection, nouninterrogative, adjectiveinterrogative, nounintransitive, adjectivelinking verb, nounmain clause, nounmasculine, adjectivemodal, nounmodal auxiliary, nounmodal verb, nounmodifier, nounmodify, verbmood, nounn., neuter, adjectivenominal, adjectivenominative, nounnon-finite, adjectivenon-restrictive, adjectivenoun, nounnumber, nounobject, nounparse, verbparticipial, adjectiveparticiple, nounparticle, nounpartitive, nounpart of speech, nounpassive, adjectivepassivize, verbpast, adjectivepast participle, nounpast perfect, nounperfect participle, nounperiphrasis, nounpersonal pronoun, nounphrasal verb, nounphrase, nounpl., plural, nounplural, adjectiveplurality, nounpossessive, adjectivepossessive, nounpredeterminer, nounpredicate, nounpredicative, adjectiveprefix, nounprefix, verbprep., preposition, nounprepositional phrase, nounpres., present participle, nounprogressive, adjectivepronominal, adjectivepronoun, nounproper noun, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounqualifier, nounquantifier, nounquestion tag, nounreflexive, adjectiveregular, adjectiverelative clause, nounrelative pronoun, nounreported speech, nounrestrictive clause, nounroot, nounrule, nounrun-on sentence, nounsecond person, nounsemicolon, nounsentence, nounsentence adverb, nounsingular, adjectivesolecism, nounsplit infinitive, nounstative, adjectivestem, nounsubject, nounsubjective, adjectivesubjunctive, nounsubordinate clause, nounsubstantive, nounsuffix, nounsuperlative, adjectivesyntactic, adjectivesyntax, nountag, nountense, nountransitive, adjectiveuncountable, adjectivev., variant, nounverb, nounverbal, adjectivevocative, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a strained/tense atmosphere (=not relaxed)· As soon as I went in, I was aware of the tense atmosphere in the room. ► tense/tighten your muscles (=make them more tight)· He tensed his stomach muscles, ready for the blow. ► a tense silence · There was a brief, tense silence. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► past · Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.· This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.· For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive. ► present · The present tense is generally also used when telling a story, as in a summary of the narrative of a novel.· P make sure the statement is in the present tense.· The present tense is used in this case because it carries a sense of immediacy and impact.· Bernstein was unable to construct anything other than disjointed school-book phrases in the present tense.· Switching from the future to the present tense has other advantages.· Every time you find a patient talking in past tense instead of present tense he is not returned to an incident.· She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion.· Harrison writes in the present tense, excising names, places, location, time frame. any of the forms of a verb that show the time, continuance, or completion of an action or state that is expressed by the verb. ‘I am’ is in the present tense, ‘I was’ is past tense, and ‘I will be’ is future tense. tense1 adjectivetense2 nountense3 verb tensetense3 (also tense up) verb [intransitive, transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE tense Simple Form Present I, you, we, they tense he, she, it tenses Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they tensed Present perfect I, you, we, they have tensed he, she, it has tensed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had tensed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will tense Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have tensed Continuous Form Present I am tensing he, she, it is tensing you, we, they are tensing Past I, he, she, it was tensing you, we, they were tensing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been tensing he, she, it has been tensing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been tensing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be tensing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been tensing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He put his arm around me, and I tensed up. Neal tensed slightly as the plane took off. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But I was not scared and my legs did not tense with the need for flight. He frowns, he tenses - he peers into a sloping hollow. I tensed on the controls, involuntarily leaning forward, ready to take off. She tensed involuntarily, looking into his eyes with growing panic. She tensed with the need to resist the powerful feelings he was evoking. Stephen, lying in a shellhole with Byrne, felt his body tense with hatred at the sound of them. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a strained/tense atmosphere (=not relaxed)· As soon as I went in, I was aware of the tense atmosphere in the room. ► tense/tighten your muscles (=make them more tight)· He tensed his stomach muscles, ready for the blow. ► a tense silence · There was a brief, tense silence. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► up · If you feel yourself tensing up, then spare a few moments to release that tension and see the difference it can make.· I tensed up, but he was talking about what dumb videos they had at the mall.· For answer Tom's whole body on the bar stool tensed up.· Every time the vestibule door opened, he tensed up.· Recreational skiers tense up when they encounter fear, be it due to difficult snow conditions, moguls or gradient.· The whole atmosphere would tense up.· The more you tense up, the worse it gets. NOUN► body · Piers took a step towards her, and she felt her body tense and her heart begin to beat quickly.· Stephen, lying in a shellhole with Byrne, felt his body tense with hatred at the sound of them.· My fingers gripped the telephone receiver; my body tensed in a familiar effort to fight the rising emotion.· And remembering it - it seemed more as if she relived it - her whole body ached, tensed, fidgeted.· The body tenses, the neck hunches and the eyes close protectively.· The dark eyes were glowing with hostility and the man's whole body had tensed.· They still breathe out when they strike, forcing the air out of their body and tensing their muscles. ► muscle · Your muscles tense in readiness for physical action.· During practice sessions on relaxation techniques, Patricia recognized that when she had an anxious thought, her muscles tensed.· Francesca's neck muscles tensed every time she took a breath and her nostrils dilated.· Your muscles are tensed, your breathing irregular, first shallow, then deep.· A muscle tensed a fraction in his jaw.· Every muscle tensed, and she swallowed nervously, but she carried on with her appointed task with renewed concentration.· When the muscles start to tense, the stretch is beginning.· If you don't feel the muscles tense, then you are not stretching at all. Word family WORD FAMILYnountensenesstensionadjectivetenseverbtenseadverbtensely to make your muscles tight and stiff, or to become tight and stiff:  Relax, and try not to tense up so much. Every time the phone rang, she tensed.
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