It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.

那天的辩论激烈紧张，且常常恶语相向。

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A massage will relax those tense muscles.

按摩会使紧张的肌肉松弛。

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Until the moment everyone started telling me to mellow out, I had never been tense for a single moment in my life.

直到每个人开始叫我放松那一刻，我一生中还从来没有一刻紧张过。

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Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

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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。

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So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

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The visitors really should have set up a tense finale when a close-range header from Ridgewell trickled fractionally over the line before being scrambled clear by James.

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Affleck had to combine a tense thriller with a comedy that takes place over the course of a very unwieldy series of events with a lot of players, while also trying to keep the essence of the story true.

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Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse.

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