They can tense up, they might tense their shoulders, they might tense their fingers.

可能神经紧绷，肩膀可能会绷紧，可能会绷紧手指。

Buck threw himself forward, tightening the traces with a jarring lunge.

巴克挺身向前，一个冲刺绷紧了缰绳。

Instead of unconsciously tensing your muscles, try to tense your muscles on purpose, you just squeeze your muscles for a few seconds and then relax them all at once.

不要无意识地绷紧你肌肉，而是有意识地紧缩肌肉几秒钟，然后立即放松。

A slew of recent indicators suggests the euro area is slipping into recession, as Germany's exports slow, the fiscal screws tighten, confidence slumps and the banks' travails imply tighter credit.

最近一个又一个指标表明欧元区正在陷入衰退，如德国出口缓慢、财政绷紧、信心下降、苦苦挣扎银行都暗示紧缩信贷。

Their minds are relaxed and not straining on a particular task.

大脑是放松，而不是绷紧在一个特殊项目上。

Tense your abs, lift the right leg, and pull it to your chest.

绷紧腹肌，抬右腿，拉到胸前。

This keeps your center of gravity directly over your base of support, which allows you to move efficiently with the least amount of fatigue and muscle strain.

这让你重心正好在你支撑面正上方，让你能够更有效率移动，同时减少了肌肉绷紧与疲劳。

Notice that the tongue is not completely relaxed, there's a little tension.

注意舌头并不是完全放松，要稍微绷紧一下。

If a gust of wind comes at you, which muscles should you tense and by how much so that you don't get blown off?

如果一阵风朝你刮来，你要将哪些肌肉绷紧到什么程度，才不会被风吹倒？

It stretched beneath his weight, and then ripped.

屏障在重压下绷紧，随即撕裂开来。

Duhobret labored three years in this way, giving himself no time for exercise or recreation.

杜霍布赖特以这种方式受了三年苦，既没有机会，没有时间使自己绷紧神经得到放松。

Before we start talking about the two techniques today, the first thing I want to tell you is that British English is a much more frontal and tense accent.

在我今天开始讨论这两种技巧之前，我想告诉你第一件事是英式英语是一种更加正式和绷紧口音。

They vocalised, tensed their muscles, arched their backs, and fussed or cried.

发出声音，绷紧肌肉，弓背，开始烦躁或哭泣。

Suddenly, he tensed up and arched his back, stretching.

突然间，绷紧身体，弓后背，开始做伸展运动。

Just as the body tightens with age, however so does the mind.

正如身体会随着年龄增长而绷紧一样，头脑会随着年龄增长而绷紧。

Now, most laxatives are known for helping out with constipation, but they can be helpful for other things, too — like, if you've just had surgery and shouldn't be straining your muscles in the bathroom.

现在，大多泻药因可助通便而为人所知，但它在其它方面是有帮助，比如当你刚做完手术并且上厕所时无法绷紧肌肉时。

Snape pulled out his wand from an inside pocket of his robes and Harry tensed in his chair, but Snape merely raised the wand to his temple and placed its tip into the greasy roots of his hair.

斯内普从袍子里抽出魔杖，哈利身体绷紧了。但斯内普只是把杖尖举到太阳穴上，插到油腻发根中。

Every day this summer had been the same: the tension, the expectation, the temporary relief, and then mounting tension again . . . and always, growing more insistent all the time, the question of why nothing had happened yet.

紧张，期待，暂时松一口气，然后弦又一点点地绷紧。而一个问题越来越迫切：为什么还没有事情发生？

So why had the flesh of his face and hands begun to creep, and why had the hair along the back of his neck begun to stand up, as if the flesh back there had suddenly tightened?

那么为何脸部肌肉和手却开始颤抖，为何颈后毛发开始竖直，仿佛背后肌肉突然绷紧呢？

Her breathing now imperceptibly raised the cotton covering. Big tears lay in the corner of the half-closed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely.

现在，觉察不到她呼吸还能不能使棉被上下伏。 大颗眼泪留在她眼皮半开眼角里，睫毛当中露出了两个暗淡无光、深深下陷眼珠；胶布贴在脸上，使她皮肤绷紧，把脸拉歪了。