tension
美 [?ten?(?)n] 
英 ['ten?(?)n]
- n.張力；拉伸；矛盾；緊張局勢（或關系、狀況）
- v.繃緊
- 網絡拉力；壓力；拉緊
詞形變化
復數：tensions 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [u][c][usupl] ~ (between A and B) 緊張局勢（或關系、狀況）a situation in which people do not trust each other, or feel unfriendly towards each other, and which may cause them to attack each other |
| There is mounting tension along the border. 邊境局勢日趨緊張。 |
| international/racial/political tensions 國際緊張局勢；種族間的緊張關系；政治上的緊張狀況 |
2. | [c][u] ~ (between A and B) 矛盾；對立a situation in which the fact that there are different needs or interests causes difficulties |
| There is often a tension between the aims of the company and the wishes of the employees. 公司的目標和雇員的愿望之間經常存在矛盾。 |
3. | [u] （情緒上的）緊張，煩躁a feeling of anxiety and stress that makes it impossible to relax |
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| We laughed and that helped ease the tension . 我們笑了，因而緊張的情緒得以緩和下來。 |
4. | [u] （作家或電影導演制造的）緊張氣氛the feeling of fear and excitement that is created by a writer or a film/movie director |
| dramatic tension 扣人心弦的緊張氣氛 |
| As the movie progresses the tension builds. 隨著電影劇情的發展，氣氛越來越緊張。 |
5. | [u] 拉伸；張力；拉緊狀態；繃緊程度the state of being stretched tight; the extent to which sth is stretched tight |
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| Adjust the string tension of your tennis racket to suit your style of playing. 調節網球拍的網張力，以配合你的打法。 |
1. | ~ sth （使金屬線、帆等）拉緊，繃緊to make a wire, sail, etc. tight and stretched |
英漢解釋
n. | 1. 【物】張力,拉力,牽力;(彈性體的)應力;(蒸氣等的)膨脹力,壓力 |
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英英解釋
例句
Since the two modes of thinking have their own insuperable limitations, a tension should be kept between them.
由于二者都具有自身難以克服的局限性，所以應使二者之間保持必要的張力。
You're trained to talk, talk, talk it out when there's tension in the air because you want a resolution.
在氣氛緊張時，你被訓練成說、說、說出來，因為你要一個解答。
The bottom half of the road experiences tension, meaning that it elongates like a spring pulled apart.
路的下端也受到張力，這意味著它像一個伸長的彈簧一樣拉長。
Wettability depends on one specific property of the surface: Surface energy, often referred to as surface tension.
潤濕性依賴于某一特定財產的表面：表面能量，通常稱為表面張力。
Tension headaches can be stress-related or due to problems with the muscles in the neck and face, but there is often no obvious cause.
它們的誘發原因，可能和壓力有關，也可能由頸部或臉部的肌肉出現問題引起，但原因往往不明顯。
Superior survival, the inefficient ones made it out of the ever-changing face of the loss of things is often psychological tension.
優者生存，劣者淘汰使得人們面對不斷變遷的事物時常出現不知所措的緊張心理。
America and China, too, could easily fall into a cycle of escalating tension that would be hard to break.
中美也很可能落入一個升級的緊張關系中無法自拔。
He says the civilians are trying to break the embargo to bring relief to people in Gaza and he hopes there will not be any tension.
他說，平民試圖打破封鎖，以減輕加沙人民，他希望不會再有任何的緊張局勢。
In the beginning we thought that on the wrong car, and like clockwork, like the heart of the tension.
一開始我們以為上錯車了，心像發條一樣繃緊了。
The tension is always loop-shaped and cannot be separated from its return to the erogenous zone.
這個敏感的地帶是個回旋的形狀，無法跟它的的回轉地帶區隔開來。
The RTTS Safety Joint is held inoperative by a tension sleeve located on the bottom of the mandrel to help prevent premature release.
RTTS的安全接頭通過位于芯軸底部的張力套保持原有狀態來防止過早解封
For there is an unnerving tension at the core of "That Used to Be Us, " a discordant emotional counterpoint.
《那曾經是我們》（ThatUsedtoBeUs）一書的精要部分存在一種令人失去信心的矛盾，一種不一致的情感對位。
The main bag is only single stitched which over time will not be able to withstand the constant tension and weight of groceries.
主袋是單線縫合的，時間一長，這種購物袋將無法承受食品雜貨的重量和張力。
Since the surface of a liquid acts like an elastic skin, the surface is in a state of tension.
因為液體的表面行動象有彈性皮膚，表面在緊張狀態。
Just as well my personality is kind of outgoing and mischievous, so I could release and ease my tension and emotions in different ways. . .
還好我的個性一向來都較外向和有一點搞怪，所以會用不同方式發泄或紓解壓力與情緒…
Anyone suggesting there was an ethnic basis to riots was "trying to instigate tension between different ethnic groups" .
任何人認為暴亂活動涉及民族因素，都是在“企圖在不同民族之間挑起緊張”。
Slowing down your talking plus adding a small pause between thoughts or sentences creates a bit of tension and anticipation.
減慢你說話的速度，在觀點或者句子之間加上稍微的停頓使之造成引人入勝的氣氛和留給聽眾一些自我猜想的空間。
I am sometimes asked rather probing questions by giggly friends. "What about sexual tension? Isn't it a bit weird? "
有時朋友笑著問我比較尖銳的問題，“會不會有兩性之間的吸引？是不是會感到有些奇怪？”
And ease the tension in the form of many, why not bring serious harm to the body of a factor to alleviate it?
而且緩解緊張情緒的形式很多，為什么非要拿一個嚴重危害身體的因素來緩解呢？
Do not use the equipment where tension lines are present. The distance from these must be at least of 5m.
不要在有高壓線的地方使用此設備。與高壓線的距離不能小于5米。
Wind and rain added to the tension among the children.
風雨令孩子更加煩躁。
There was a strange, dark tension about her husband.
丈夫流露出一種奇怪而憂郁的緊張神情。
The elongation of a body in tension above its no-load length is directly proportional to the stretching force.
物體在拉伸狀態下，其伸長量（相對于無負荷時的長度）與拉伸力成正比。
The time will come when the tension between the Allies will become so great that the break will occur.
同盟國之間關系變得十分緊張，終于發生決裂的日子就要來到。
Nim's tension of a moment earlier dissolved.
尼姆方才感到的緊張一下子化為烏有了。
This statement eased the tension which existed, and I am glad today to read it over again.
這個聲明緩和了當時存在的緊張情緒，我今天重溫這篇演說，感到十分高興。
In all he wrote there is a tension between the claims of progress and those of continuity and stability.
在他所有的著述中，主張進步和主張連續性和穩定性之間存在著對立。
Hatred and tension continue to fester in the war-torn city.
仇恨和緊張在這座飽受戰亂的城市中滋長。
Faults can be ranged into two principal types which are caused by either tension or compression.
斷層可分為兩種主要類型，即張力斷層和擠壓斷層。
The increase in racial tension constitutes a threat to our society.
種族間緊張狀態的升級是對我們社會的一種威脅。
Racial tension finally boiled over in the inner city riots.
種族間的緊張狀態最終演化成了市中心貧困區的暴亂。
The old detestable world of tension had passed away at last, his soul was strong and at ease.
從前那可憎的緊張狀態最終已經過去了，他的靈魂堅定而自若。
"Shall we have some tea? " he asked, anxious to break the tension which was apparent on everyone's face.
“我們喝點茶，好嗎？”他問道——急于驅散每個人臉上流露出來的緊張情緒。
Objective To evaluate emulsifiability of emulsifying agent by method of comparative isotherm of the surface(interfacial) tension.
目的采用表（界）面張力等溫曲線比較法評價泊洛沙姆等乳化劑的乳化能力。
He worked with a woman quite a few years his senior and his manager, and there was, by his account, serious tension.
與他共事的一個女人比他大好幾歲，還是他的經理。照他自己的說法，兩人都繃著一根弦，相當緊張。
The labor stoppage, commonly known as the strike , is a natural result of tension between labor and management.
勞動停工，俗稱罷工，是勞資之間緊張局勢的必然結果。
But not too long; the longer he took, the greater the tension and expectation, and the better his answer had to be.
但時間并不長；他拖延的時間越長，緊張和期盼則越大，他的答復效果就會越好。
Tit for Tat Getting Out of Hand Shots fired across the DMZ at a time of such tension is a potential disaster waiting to happen.
針鋒相對的緊張局勢失控等燃煤手射門跨越時間在非軍事區是一個潛在的災難的發生。
a substance capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved.
能減少溶解它的液體的表面張力的物。
A bit of tension was added to the atmosphere when a person accepting an award for the Korean movie "Enlightenment Film" stepped on stage.
只不過韓片「啟蒙電影」代領人，上臺領獎時，講了這句話，讓現場氣氛頓時凝結。
It was the sort of nightmare diplomatic scenario that has the potential to become increasingly common as tension hots up around the globe.
隨著全球熱點地區緊張局勢升級，這種噩夢般的外交場面可能會變得越來越常見。
On the morning of the thirteenth, the atmosphere around the White House was alive with excitement as well as tension.
13日早晨，白宮周圍的氣氛活力十足，既興奮又緊張。
I've never seen any sign of tension between them, and if it keeps going the way it's going, they'll be together for life.
我從來沒有看到他們之間有過一丁點兒的緊張氣氛，如果這樣的情況保持下去，他們會白頭偕老的。
The tension of waiting seems to be the fate of pathetique of contemporary Professional soldiers and military barracks.
在緊張中等待，似乎成了當代和平時期職業軍人和整個軍營的悲愴命運。
If you interrupt him with something else not relevant to the current conversation, you could create tension between the both of you.
如果你用不相干的事情打斷了他，你就可能在你們彼此之間制造出緊張氣氛。
A lot of heckling is the tension of trying to make sure that the comedian is going to be able to dominate, and overcome the heckler.
多次大聲的質疑是一種，嘗試去確定演員有能力控制觀眾，和克服質疑的張力。
Since the surface of the hole must be stress free , the stress in the vicinity of the hole must be modified from the uniaxial tension.
因為洞的表面自由地一定是壓迫力，壓迫力在鄰近洞一定從單橋的緊張被修正。
It has a history, whereas America is still making history, animated by an eschatological tension toward the future.
當美國還被面向未來的末世緊張情緒促使著創造歷史的時候，歐洲已經有了自己的歷史。
The random vibration method is often used to measure the tension forces in the cables.
隨機激勵頻率法是檢測斜拉索張力的有效方法。
President Karzai also said he hopes to reduce years of tension with Pakistan.
卡爾扎伊總統還表示，他希望降低多年來和巴基斯坦之間的緊張關系。
I got it as a free sample and I would not pay 20 dollars for it due to the huge drop in tension.
我的這個線是免費得到的樣品，由于掉磅的問題我不會花20多美元去買它。
In a movie, the catching plot is the tension when the hero is in a trap, not the release when he gets out of the mud.
看一場電影，最抓人的情節多在主人公身陷囹圄的緊張，而不在于走出泥濘的釋然。
"I could feel the tension in the air - for a couple of seconds there was dead silence, and people broke into shouts and cries, " he said.
他說：“我能感覺到氣氛十分緊張：開始幾秒死一般的沉寂后，人們開始大聲哭喊。”
