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taut

/tawt/US // tɔt //UK // (tɔːt) //

绷紧,绷紧的,绷得紧紧的,紧绷的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    taut·er, taut·est.

    • : tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
    • : emotionally or mentally strained or tense: taut nerves.
    • : in good order or condition; tidy; neat.

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Examples

  • In fairness, the storytelling in Lupin doesn’t have quite the same taut precision as, say, The Parallax View.

  • In a taut Game 6 at home, Pierce hit a three at the buzzer that forced overtime — or would have forced overtime, had it not come a fingertip after the buzzer.

  • They attach the fiber optic cable at the top and stretch it to the bottom, so it’s taut.

  • There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.

  • Now Kevin Garvey (a taut, tense Justin Theroux) is Mapleton's chief of police.

  • “At first it was so bizarre,” she mumbles into a hand mirror, her mouth taut as she applies lipstick in the back of a taxi.

  • In fact, they are linked by a taut common thread: innocence encountering the face of evil.

  • Taut red fabric on the ceiling above the chandelier gives the room a cool, circus-tent vibe.

  • The atmosphere seemed drawn taut before him as though it must any instant split open upon a sound of crying.

  • As they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them.

  • How his fingers tingled with anticipation when he grasped the taut double line!

  • Screen wire is very difficult material to fasten on a frame so that it becomes taut.

  • His eyes shone, his chin was thrust forward, every ligament in his body was strung taut.