1. uptight
He is so uptight. I hate spending time with him.
Don't get uptight about the exam - just do your best.
The man in the yellow vest was rather uptight.
Cause somebody that comes across as being uptight in the interview situation, the interviewer doesn’t know quite how to take that.
Angličtina slovo „teso„(uptight) se zobrazí v sadách:
Italian Adjectives2. stretched
This sweater is all stretched out of shape.
The ocean stretched as far as the eye could see.
Aren't you stretched pretty thin already?
He stretched and took a deep breath.
He stretched out his arm for a magazine.
The child stretched out his hand to his mother.
Dad stretched after dinner.
The cat arched its back and stretched itself.
Then he stretched his legs and settled back in his seat.
My father was taking a nap on the sofa, with his legs stretched toward the fire.
John stretched out on the couch.
się She got out of bed, and yawned and stretched.
When I opened the door, I found her naked, stretched on the sofa.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives.
The line of cars stretched all the way from the expressway to the city centre.
3. bent
She bent down.
The straw appears bent at the place where it enters the water.
The Upper House seems bent on defeating any reform bills.
Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.
The close-cropped lawn is beautiful in the eyes of a people whose inherited bent it is to readily find pleasure in contemplating a well-preserved pasture or grazing land.
Don't get all bent out of shape over little things. A short temper can make you poor.
The thin man paused in the shade with his knees a little bent.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Leave her alone for now - she's bent.
This knife is bent.; a bent policeman; She has a bent for music.
Olek was a boy with a mechanical bent who later became an car mechanic.
My bicycle frame was bent after I got into an accident.
Chris held Teddy until he became calm and just stood there, his glasses bent and hanging off one ear.
It can't be bent easily.
Jim dropped his pen and bent to pick it up.
Angličtina slovo „teso„(bent) se zobrazí v sadách:
Litigio - Altercation4. tense
I feel tense and agitated when I have too much work to do.
Every muscle in his body was tense and ready to attack.
tense situation/atmosphere/moment
The international situation had become so tense, it would require proficient diplomats to handle it with kid gloves.
I say "should", because theses written in the present tense are still seen around and about.
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
It's very interesting that in Chinese the concept of tense does not exist.
Adverbial time clauses (here 'when') write about the future in the present tense.
These sentences only differ with respect to tense.
The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?
In the official question collection it is explained as being "passive voice of the present continuous tense".
I’m feeling a bit tense and nervous about my job interview tomorrow.
I felt very tense about driving, and the test was a disaster.
An example of tense is the way to describe a student just before he takes a big and important test.
I have been feeling rather tense all day
5. taut
Check that the rope is taut before climbing.
"This is Major Wyan..." a taut voice come.
taut violin strings; Keep the rope taut.
There was a high fence stretching miles around the whole perimeter, taut and level all the way, no weeds at its base
Gradually his taut posture relaxed.
taut stomach
When he was a meter from the wall, the line went taut.
Then, with the help of the local Indians, August Jack and Willie Khahtsahlano and a team of horses, he pulled taut the first hemp rope and cedar plank bridge 450 feet across the Capilano River.
a taut rope. Victoria's Secret model Doutzen Kroes shows off her taut stomach during Miami family