喜樂美語

核心畫面

For most of this word you can hold one physical picture: a rope or a muscle pulled tight, with no slack left in it. Something pulled that tight cannot move freely and cannot rest — and if the pull goes on, it starts to hurt. From there the word stretches to people and to rooms full of people. One meaning, the grammar one, sits outside this picture entirely.

這個字大部分的用法可以想成一條被拉到底的繩子，或一塊繃緊的肌肉——裡面一點鬆餘都沒有了。拉到這麼緊的東西沒辦法自在活…更多收起這個字大部分的用法可以想成一條被拉到底的繩子，或一塊繃緊的肌肉——裡面一點鬆餘都沒有了。拉到這麼緊的東西沒辦法自在活動，也沒辦法休息，拉久了還會痛。從這個身體上的畫面，它往外伸到「人」身上（心裡繃著），再伸到「場面」上（整個房間都繃著）。不過還有一個意思——文法的「時態」——不在這個畫面裡，得另外記。

原始詞典資料11 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。

tensenoun詞源 1/tɛns/

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    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

    • Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

    • English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
    • In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
  • 3

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA grammatical aspect.

  • 4

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.

    • The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.
    • The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.

tenseverb詞源 1/tɛns/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsTo apply a tense to.

    • tensing a verb

tenseadj詞源 2/tɛns/

  • 1

    Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

    • You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
    • "Attention," the tense man called out in Greek. "This is Lieutenant Kazamakis of the Cypriot Provisional Guard. You will immediately surrender all weapons and slowly come down the stairs, hands above your head." No answer.
  • 2

    Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)

    • Chi stops, but her eyes continue to pierce right through me and into Karima. A tense moment later, she drops her eyes back to the terminal and scans the data once more. The showdown is over, at least for the moment.
  • 3

    Pulled taut, without any slack.

  • 4

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsProduced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.

tenseverb詞源 2/tɛns/

  • 1

    To make tense.

  • 2

    To become tense.

    • The driver and the man shouted angrily at each other and I tensed, ready for violence. But soon everyone in the tap-tap joined in, capping remarks, joking, telling chicken and goat stories.

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。