tense up

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1. You know what happens when you've been sitting at your desk too long: Your muscles tense up, your eyes glaze over, and your energy lags.
   你知道长期端坐在办公桌前的恶果：紧绷的肌肉，呆滞的双眼和无精打采的自己。
2. When you're tense, your system ramps up production of the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, says Rumsey.
   拉姆齐说，当你紧张时，你的身体系统会增加压力荷尔蒙肾上腺素和皮质醇的分泌。
3. Movement If youre like me, you spend 98% of the workday sitting. All of this sitting leaves the body tired and tense. The muscles of the hips lock up, the legs get stiff, and the shoulder and neck muscles strain.
   运动如果你和我一样，白天98%的时间都坐着，那么你的身体会紧张而疲惫，臀部、腿部、肩膀和脖子上的肌肉都会紧绷和僵硬。
4. Another great relaxationtechnique is to tense up and then relax each musclein your body, one at a time, starting from your toes up to your head.
   另一个放松技巧是让你身体的每块肌肉依次先收缩后放松。从脚趾开始往上，至头部结束。
5. Some students get very tense up before oral exams.
   口试总使一些学生很紧张。
6. May be tense, wound up, have high blood pressure and find it difficult to relax.
   可能会紧张，激动，有高血压并发现很难放松。
7. We use the past perfect continuous tense to show that an action started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.
   我们用过去完成进行时态来形容一个在过去开始的行动，这个行动持续到过去的另一个时间。
8. You'll be able to use the present perfect tense for checking up.
   你可以用现在进行时态去检查。
9. Try not to tense up your body too much, and learn to relax the muscles you aren't using.
   试着不要让你的身体过于紧张，并学着放松你不需要用的肌肉。
10. You'll tense up and "endure" the exercise, further ingraining a fear-based mindset.
    若此你只会持续紧张，遭受训练中的折磨，并将形成一系列心理恐惧症。
11. If you start to get unduly tense, or frustrated, simply get up and walk away for a few minutes.
    如果你过度紧张，或者心灰意冷，就站起来，走几分钟。
12. Note: Try your best not to tense up while you are doing these concentration exercises, it is ALL mental.
    注意：当你在做这些注意力集中练习时，尽你所能不要紧张，这都是意念的。
13. It follows a tense election campaign which descended into bitterness in the days leading up to the vote.
    一轮紧张的竞选活动，紧随其后的，是为准备投票的这些天里累积而成来的辛酸苦难。
14. Where previously you were quite relaxed and focused, you now tense up and question your ability.
    之前你很放松、精力集中，现在却神经紧张、开始怀疑自己的能力。
15. Gerald's eyes were quick and restless, his whole manner tense and impatient, he seemed strung up to some activity.
    杰罗尔德的目光敏锐不安，举止紧张，心神不定，好象某种活动搅得他神经过敏似的。
16. Your body reacts by flooding the bloodstream with hormones that tense up your muscles and jack up your heart rate and blood pressure.
    你的身体做出的反应是荷尔蒙流入血液，让肌肉紧缩并使心率和血压上升。
17. Many toxic compounds are bitter, so the researchers expected the lung muscle to tense up and contract& to compel the breather to move away from whatever was bitter and perhaps toxic.
    很多有毒化合物都比较苦，因此研究人员预计肺部肌肉会紧张收缩&迫使呼吸者远离苦涩或是有毒性的物品。
18. It's impossible to be sexy when you're tense, so loosening up your body will help you feel good even when you're piled with work.
    当你紧张时根本不可能性感，因此，放松身体会让你感觉很好，即使是在你工作很忙的时候。
19. Work swiftly, but do not tense up; relax your body and mind and never tighten up.
    工作要赶不要急，身心要松不要紧。
20. I drink only room temperature water because cold drinks tense up my esophagus muscle.
    我只饮用常温水，因为我的冷饮食管癌肌肉紧张。
21. When pain strikes, we attempt to keep the back as immobile as possible, which makes the muscles tense up.
    当疼痛袭击，我们设法保持背部肌肉绷紧。
22. Finally the paper concludes tense and voice features in headlines and sums up the most important feature of headlines: omission.
    又归纳了时态语态在新闻标题中的变换省略和替代；
23. Through discussion on the problem of multidimensional tense GIS application in the book management of urban land, this paper considers that the management information system of land book set up at present, the majority is two-dimensional, and static.
    通过对多维时态GIS在城镇地籍管理中应用的有关问题探讨，可以认为：目前所建立的地籍管理信息系统，绝大部分是二维的、静态的；
24. The results showed that the loose of UV treatment on fibers 'tense strength is not great. However, the content of active group and the specific surface have increased so as to improve the interfacial felt properties between Kevlar fibers/ UP resins.
    结果表明：UV处理对纤维的损伤较小，但表面极性基团增加，比表面积增大，从而提高了Kevlar纤维/UP树脂的界面粘结强度。
25. "Back misty poetry" have removed the tense relation with history in the field of literature, it indicated that "misty poetry" had cleared up completely the meanings.
    后朦胧涛在文学领域解除了与历史的紧张关系，标志着朦胧诗意义的彻底消解。
26. The Chinese public relation industry is rapidly growing, the market competition is increasingly tense, new hot spots are cropping up one after another.
    中国公关业增长迅速，市场竞争日趋激烈，新热点不断涌现，但外部环境及本地公关公司自身的差距等原因，致使中国公关行业依然落后。
27. Plotinus tries to find a new route between these two tense theories in order to sum up their fruits and solve the problems of each.
    普罗提诺的灵魂学说就是要在这两者的紧张冲突中寻找新的路径，以便综合前人成果，解决他们各自所遗留下来的难题。
28. In the accelerated development of human material production at the same time, the relationship between man and nature has changed dramatically tense up.
    在人类物质生产加速发展的同时，人与自然的关系却日益变的紧张起来。
29. Nowadays, with the energy supply increasingly tense and the electricity market opening up gradually, it is extremely important to study the optimizational operation of thermal power.
    在能源供应日益紧张和电力市场逐渐开放的今天，火电机组运行优化指导的研究具有非常重要的意义。
30. Thirdly, simple present tense mostly used in both kinds of news, which is in accordance with the up to date and quick character of news.
    第三，一般现在时在两类新闻中占主导，这体现了新闻的时效性。

verb

1. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
   1. he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up

   Synonym:    tensestrain

2. become tense, nervous, or uneasy
   1. He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room

   Synonym:    tense