My stockings are getting tighter.

我的袜子穿着越来越紧了。

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She held her hands tighter and turned her eyes toward him.

她把双手握得更紧了，眼睛转向他。

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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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Overall police numbers hit a nine-year low in 2012, due to tighter budget constraints slowing recruitment.

BBC: Police pay to start ?4,000 lower, at ?19,000

He taught us how to love a little more and to hug a little tighter.

CNN: Students dress like Superman to remember football player

Critics say the SEC has been dragging its feet on tighter rules on short-selling.

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