| 单词 | tense |
| 释义 | Word Frequency tense 1(tɛns) adjective 1. stretched or stressed tightly; taut or rigid 2. under mental or emotional strain 3. producing mental or emotional strain a tense day 4. (of a speech sound) pronounced with considerable muscular effort and having relatively precise accuracy of articulation and considerable duration in English the vowel (iː) in 'beam' is tense Compare lax1 (sense 4) verb 5. (often foll by up) to make or become tense Derived forms tensely (ˈtensely) adverb tenseness (ˈtenseness) noun Word origin C17: from Latin tensus taut, from tendere to stretchWord Frequency tense 2(tɛns) noun grammar a category of the verb or verbal inflections, such as present, past, and future, that expresses the temporal relations between what is reported in a sentence and the time of its utterance Derived forms tenseless (ˈtenseless) adjective Word origin C14: from Old French tens time, from Latin tempus |
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