tense是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 时态v. 拉紧， (使) 紧张a. 绷紧的， 紧张的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The patched and dirty spankers were tense before the wind, and up aloft the little ship seemed carrying every sail she had.
-- Then suddenly my tense excite-ment gave way; I broke into a profuse perspiration and fell a-trembling, with my adversary routed and this weapon in my hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She drew a loud breath and snorted out through her tense nostrils, started, pricked up her sharp ear, and put out her strong, black lip towards Vronsky, as though she would nip hold of his sleeve.
-- Levin knew all this; and it was agonizingly painful to him to behold the supplicating, hopeful eyes and the emaciated wrist, lifted with difficulty, making the sign of the cross on the tense brow, and the prominent shoulders and hollow, gasping chest, which one could not feel consistent with the life the sick man was praying for.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly he was tense again, and he lay awake till dawn.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to the door, knocked, and waited with tense muscles and an aching brow.
-- For a few seconds the wayfarer stood with that tense stillness which signifies itself to be not the end, but merely the suspension, of a previous motion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a tense moment, there was silence.
-- Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of onewhose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin.
-- Even Melanie, now great with child, forgot hermodesty and worked feverishly side by side with Prissy, Cookie and Scarlett, her face as tense as any of the wounded.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mrs Crich, in her low, tense voice.
-- He looked down at her tense clear face, with its heavy features, but he was afraid to look into her heavy-seeing blue eyes.
-- Birkin had a slight, tense frown between the brows.
-- Every one of his limbs was turgid with electric force, and his back was tense like a tiger's, with slumbering fire.
-- He saw her standing tall and livid and attentive, the stone clenched tense in her hand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his voice was a little tense when he spoke to her, and he began to be silent whenever she was present.
-- She saw his eyes, tense and bril-liant, fierce, not loving.
-- There was a tense silence.
-- The man looked down in silence at the tense phallos, that did not change. 'Ay!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's no matter,' said Mr Pancks, 'I merely wish to remark that the task this Proprietor has set me, has been never to leave off conjugating the Imperative Mood Present Tense of the verb To keep always at it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glamour, the tense situation, the fine clothes, the applause, these had lured her until she felt that she, too, could act--that she, too, could compel acknowledgment of power.
-- There was so much warmth in it and such tense complaint at her having failed to meet him, and her subsequent silence, that she rather pitied the man.
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