For half an hour I sat with straining ears.

我竖起耳朵坐了足足半个小时。

The diffuse mode works in the background where you're relaxed and not straining on one thing, it can see the big picture and make connections.

扩散式就是你在放松、不纠结于一件事，它可以看到全局并建立联系。

According to a German professor, the soreness comes from straining your muscles in an uncommon way, for example, jumping on a bicycle for a ride, because you haven't ridden in a long time.

一位德国教授表示，酸痛源于肌肉的过度拉伸，例如，你在已经很久没有骑车的情况下突然来一次骑行。

Bending her head, straining against the wind, the girl walks into the monster.

她低下头，在风中毅立不摇，女孩走进了怪兽里面。

Return to the initial position, straining the leg and butt muscles.

回到初始位置，拉紧腿部和臀部肌肉。

Other colleges are straining to stand out from their peers.

其他大学正努力从同行当中脱而出。

The first part of the sentence suggests an effort – straining of the eyes.

句子的第一部分暗示着眼睛的极力张开。

Or it might mean succumbing to dark modes that aren't dark enough to save our eyes from straining when we do want to read.

或者，我们可以使用不够暗的夜间模式，来减少我们在阅读时的眼部疲劳。

The decision is being seen as for further pressure by the Turkish government on media freedom and is straining relations between Ankara and Berlin.

该决定被视作土耳其政府对媒体自由的施压，并且进一步加剧了土耳其和柏林的紧张关系。

This is straining the AfD, which has three leaders.

这使得新选部更加紧张。

So stop straining your pop-a-squats and let gravity do the work for you instead.

所以不要给你的便便增加负担了，让重力作用完成这些事情吧。

Soon the distant noise of Ron straining to shift the rocks was gone.

很快，罗恩吭哧吭哧搬石头的声音不见了。

Miss Morstan seized my wrist, and we all stood, with thumping hearts, straining our ears.

摩斯坦小姐紧握着我的手腕，我们极其紧张地站在那里，心跳得普通普通地侧耳倾着。

When we're mainly focused on striving and straining, because we're convinced that only through 'effort' we'll get where we need to be, we may be swimming against the stream.

当我们主要关注努力和紧张时，因为我们相信只有通过“努力”才能到达我们需要的地方，我们可能会逆流而上。

… images of portly magicians straining their buttons are conjured in the mind.

… … 胖乎乎的魔术师使劲按按钮的画面在脑海中浮现。

Jordan's limited resources are straining under the influx.

约旦的有限资源在难民的涌入下变得十分紧张。

After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded.

一番用力推拉之后，他终于成功地把大石头移到路旁去了。

There are 30,000 troops in the area, all straining at the leash.

【strain】该地区有三万名士兵，全都在枕戈待旦。

It appears spontaneously when we're completely immersed in the present moment, consumed by what is, without the need for anything to change, without straining ourselves to be anywhere but in the here and now.

当我们完全沉浸在当下，不需要任何改变，不需要强迫自己去除了此时此地以外的任何地方，这种满足会自然地出现。

He showed Harry two identical balls, jet black and slightly smaller than the red Quaffle. Harry noticed that they seemed to be straining to escape the straps holding them inside the box.

他拿给哈利看两只一模一样的球，它们黑得发亮，比刚才的红色鬼飞球略小一些。哈利注意到，它们似乎在拼命挣扎，想摆脱把它们束缚在箱子里的皮带。