tenseness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈtens.nəs/ us/ˈtens.nəs/
(WORRY)
担忧;紧张
the quality of being worried or nervous
There was an underlying tenseness in his manner. 他的态度里有一种潜在的紧张感。
紧张|担忧
the quality of making people feel worried or nervous
the tenseness of life during the war 战时生活的紧张
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- A tenseness gripped Lisbon as people waited to see what would happen.
- He feels tenseness and may think that it is difficult to cure this so-called 'simple' problem.
- There was a fair degree joking in order to take the tenseness out of the situation.
- A massage takes the tenseness of the day away.
(STRETCHED MUSCLES)
紧张
a state in which the muscles in your body or in a part of your body are stretched tight and stiff
Nina could see by the tenseness of his neck that he was worried. 尼娜从他紧绷的脖子看出了他的担心。
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- He could feel the tenseness of her fingers, as if she was clutching at crystal straws.
- She could tell from the tenseness in his body that there were moments when he had to fight his feelings.
- Permanent tenseness had withered her neck slightly.
- Suddenly she released all the tenseness from her muscles and he relaxed his hold slightly.
- I was conscious of an aching tenseness in all my muscles.
(PHONETICS)
phonetics specialized紧张音
the quality of being made with more force than other speech sounds
errors of tenseness and phonetic length 紧张音和音长的错误
See: tense
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- Kloeke actually argues that the term 'final consonant devoicing' is inaccurate because the feature in question is tenseness, rather than voice.
- It is not implausible to think that children may begin by commanding one feature before the other, that is, tenseness before length, length before tenseness.
- In the phonetic transcription, we code separately errors of tenseness and phonetic length.