音标:['taɪt(ə)n] ;
vt.
使紧,使变紧,使绷紧(与up连用):
He tightened up the rope a little.
他把绳子绷紧了一些。
使加强;使更严格(与up连用):
The government tightened up economic controls.
政府加紧了经济控制。
使紧张(与up连用):
The girl was tightened up inside.
女孩内心感到紧张。
vi.
变紧,绷紧:
Money tightened after the war.
战后银根紧了。
(变得)更严格;更完善;加强:
Controls gradually tightened.
控制渐渐加强。
拉紧;绷紧;变紧张:
muscles tightening with fatigue
因劳累而变得发紧的肌肉
(身体某部位)产生憋闷感
短语:
tighten one's belt
见 belt

英语中的俚语、口语或顺口溜很多,它们的意义,往往与字面意义不同,有时也不合文法的结构,所以正确了解和灵活使用,是学习英语者的难题之一。下面即是常见的一些,供读者参考。

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学英语单词
accessory lobes
aflac
air cooled brake
alligation
anaerobic corrosion
aping
arrising tool
ate complex
back channel
banner cloth
Bellini, Giovanni
bi-metal regulator
bid shielding
bidree, bidri
biogeographic, biogeographical
bonding orbital
boronians
BOT build-operate-transfer
Butovo
Canarium strictum
clap eyes on
communications device
competent authorities
computer paper
congenital choledochus cyst
converter circuit
coronado
crack valve
cubbish
curling stick
dejection rock
departmental hour rate method
Diplotaxis
early graduation base on academic excellence
ECEG
equivalent static stability
Euphorbia royleana
factory-production
final-set
global vibration test
glycerole
have credit with sb.
hemocytotripsis
holographic fingerprint sensor
Hukkyo
in my dream
in-pile corrosion
indian pinks
Is it raining now
layer 3 function
machine time allowance
managerial system
maratoriam
marketing experimentation
martinons
medium altitude communication satellite program
medium-term bonds
microchannel plate cathode ray tube
Morera's theorem
multilayer hierarchical control
musculus mylopharyngeus
Neuve-Eglise
nitroglycerin(e)
nonrotatable
null reference
ojars
open operations
operating revenue
packet communication function
parasangs
period of employment
Perkinsville
portrait sample
postherpetic polyneuropathy
pseudo-random digital signal generator
Rizzoli's osteoclast
rocket surgeries
ruel-bone
safety mechanism
Scardinius erythrophthalmus
sickle spanner
skerling
smog reaction
soiling procedure
source of deduction
specific name
subjective criteria
sunmen
susies
tavern
technical advisor
Temminck's tragopan
terify
theralite diabase
timber pack
time biology
tund
vertebrosacral
viscosity chassification
voice-frequency-multichannel system
water-immersion simulation test
whole synthesis