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
a collection of china
atmosphere density
Bali Township
barrel type mixer
BCDG (burst cartridge detection gear)
biuneinate
boatchaped heart
boychiks
Bren (gun) carrier
ceare
celebrat
ceramic foam filter
combination draw reverse draw die
commercial business and industrial enterprises
compact perfect set
convective diffusion
conveyor feed
corsiflexion
cowbard
Cryptococcus hominis
customs boat
definite ducts
draugr
Dreistelzberg
Echinops tjanschanicus
engine throttle
enterprise-zones
Eutropine
fixed logic query
Fort Orange
fortified milk
garm (gharm)
general cargo rates
glamour-puss
Glyptopetalum geloniifolium
greenstreet
harmonic scale
Homogyn
hoplostethus mediterraneus
hydrophily
hyperlipidaemia
I-n-Alchi
in dozens
interaction prediction
Jebjerg
kinetic neutralization test
laurita
lgd
loading equipment
Ma Yuan
me-time
methylenebis(4-phenyl-isocyanate)
mite society
multichannel pyrheliometer
mungbean sprout
nanosomia lymphatica
neurovirulence
neutral liquid
nonwhiteness
offshore production system
oil jet hopper feeder
outer propellers
outpedanted
ovarian germinal epithelium
parallel phase resonance
PEMPHERIDIDAE
Perdilatal
podo-
pot-net
power-assisted
pressure reducing valve (hydraulic)
rapid destruction
rapidly decreasing distribution
rillock
rmw
scoop out
server monitoring
shining clubmoss
silicon control rectifier system (scr)
skeletal cartilages
slugabeds
sound frequency
stickball games
sticky coal
streny
strive
suppression operate time
switch code
tans(e)y
telephone transformator
the day goes against them
threeleaf rose
tritsch
truth-in-sentencing
underextended
valve operating gear
vinglycinate
void in whole
Walsingham, Sir Francis
wasabia tenuis matsum.
weak-heartedly
yakows