But the crew avoided capture by hiding in places like the engine room for many tense hours.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

I've always been like that. Byron was the only person I enjoyed reading during the nail-biting and tense period of studying for my orals.

我从下就这样，拜伦是,我读书的时候唯一一个喜欢的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

just being able to keep saying from a person's perspective which is very hard to see when you get very tense and very defensive. And it's just so good for me to have have someone like Saed especially with Saed personally, just to have that gate.

就是能够,从一个个人的角度聊问题,而如果你很紧张就很难做到这一点,很有戒备心的时候就很难，所以我能够,有Saed是非？牡？,有这扇门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It called for another national boycott against grape growers as relations again became tense.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

(Talking) It's a tense time for the Muslim leaders, following the arrest in Pakistan of five young Americans from a neighboring community.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20