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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Let us change the tense for convenience.

为了方便起见，我们把时态改一下。

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You use the present tense for various things in English.

在英语中，现在时态有多种不同的用法。

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For several tense minutes, the astronauts of Gemini Six were sitting on top of a highly explosive mass of rocket fuel.

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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。

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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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Relations between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have been tense for some time.

NPR: Russia and Georgia Dispute Spies, Soldiers

The announcement on Monday led to some tense moments for some South Korean working.

WSJ: North Korea Opens Some Border Crossings

There were a few tense moments for Scotland immediately after Indridi Sigurdsson equalised for Iceland and in the closing stages, when the heroics of Gordon came to the rescue.

BBC: Burley praises Gordon performance