形容人：整個人都繃著
把同一個旋鈕裝在一個人身上：他的認真和情緒長期維持在高檔，說話做事都很用力，因此旁人容易覺得壓力有點大。
overly serious (person) · adjective · C1
Describing a person who is very serious and has very strong feelings — often used when you find this a bit too much.
太過認真投入的（人）
核心畫面
Picture a dial turned right up: the same thing is still there — heat, colour, pain, interest — but concentrated, pressing hard, hard to ignore. The word says nothing about good or bad; it only says the level is high and you can feel it.
可以想成：一個旋鈕被轉到很滿的位置——東西還是同一個（熱、顏色、痛、興趣），只是濃度拉高了，壓過來的力道很強，讓你沒…更多收起
可以想成：一個旋鈕被轉到很滿的位置——東西還是同一個（熱、顏色、痛、興趣），只是濃度拉高了，壓過來的力道很強，讓你沒辦法忽略。這個字本身不分好壞，它只說「程度很高，而且你感覺得到」。From the picture
Also in this word
very strong · adjective · C1
Very strong in the way it feels or in the effect it has.
強烈的
demanding, high-pressure · adjective · C1
Involving a lot of serious effort, often with a great deal happening in a short time.
緊張激烈的
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
intenseadj/ɪnˈtɛns/
- 1
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
- Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.
- […] Nature had a robe of glory on, / And the bright air o'er every shape did weave / Intenser hues, so that the herbless stone, / The leafless bough among the leaves alone, / Had being clearer than its own could be, […]
- 2
Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
- [T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
- These pendent lamps and chandeliers are bright / As earthly fires from dull dross can be cleansed; / Yet could my eyes drink up intenser beams / Undazzled—this is darkness—when I close / These lids, i see far fiercer brilliances,— […]
- 3
Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
- intense study
- intense thought
- 4
Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
- The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.
- Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). "Are you Intense?"
- 5
Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。