Stretched tight; rigid; not lax; hence, severely strained, as nerves.

拉紧的；紧张的；不松弛的；紧绷的(神经)。

To make tense.

拉紧。

To become tense.

变紧张。

The form a verb takes to indicate the time of an action or state of being.

【文法】表示动作之时候或时态。

Went serves as the past tense of go.

Went 为go 之过去式。

The time thus indicated.

【文法】如此指示之时。

Set of the forms used in inflecting a verb to express tense.

时式。