The rocking made him seasick, and the noose becoming tighter and tighter, choked him.

摇晃使他头昏脑涨，套索越来越紧，令他窒息。

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The connection between domestic coastal dry bulk transportation and international dry bulk transportation is also therefore tighter and tighter.

国内沿海干散货运输市场与国际干散货运输市场之间的联系因此也越来越紧密。

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With the growing number of college graduates being turned out each year, the situation in the job market is getting tighter and tighter.

随着大学毕业生人数每年的增加，就业市场的形势日趋紧张。

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But lower property values and tighter lending requirements mean a harder time getting new loans.

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If we have a higher z effective, it's pulled in tighter, we have to put in more energy in order to eject an electron, so it turns out that that's why case 2 is actually the lowest energy that we need to put in.

而如果有效核电量更高，原子核的束缚也就更紧，我们不得不输入更多的能量来打出一个电子，这就是第二种情况,所需要输入的,能量更少的原因。

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And that makes sense, too, because the positive three pulling on minus one has a tighter binding energy than positive one pulling on minus one.

而这也是有意义的，因为+3和-1的相互吸引,产生了比+1和-1的吸引,更强的能量。

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The pattern will narrow as the gold market coils between tighter and tighter ranges.

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Tighter economic times for customers and stores mean tighter political times for Mr Bush.

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You just felt it was like a vice in your body getting tighter and tighter.

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