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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

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。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

They didn't word it that--they put it in the present tense: home prices double every ten years.

他们不是这样写的...他们用的是现在时,房价每十年就会翻一番

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Hurt Locker" is a tense and exciting movie about a group of American soldiers in Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

If you see somebody being kicked in the groin in a movie, you might yourself tense up.

如果你看到电影里有人阴部被踢中，你自己可能也会绷紧一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Also we can use a future tense by saying,

我们也可以这样来表达将来时，

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2009.09.06

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

Plays about rulers like Henry the Fourth and Richard the Third explore Britain's history during a time when the country was going through tense political struggles.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Don't pop out contact lenses but just tense them.

别隐形眼镜瞪出来，只是绷紧他们。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The situation grew increasingly tense as more United States warships entered the area.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Tense your lower and upper eyelids.

绷紧你的上下眼睑。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He saw little progress. Relations between the United States and Spain became tense.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The situation became tense when gold was discovered in the disputed area.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

One is "The Hurt Locker." It is a tense and exciting movie about American soldiers in Iraq whose job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

But after a tense minute, Bill beat the snake until it surrendered.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The eighteen fifties were an increasingly tense time in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Then his quick and tense look asked the question: "Which?"

VOA: special.2009.04.18

There is a tense movie about the war in Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The tense music expresses the restlessness of the sea.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

They spent eleven tense minutes in the capsule.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

But she was clearly tense as Cazeau arrived.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

The situation seemed very tense and dangerous.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Their relationship is sometimes tense.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

South Korea's Wi says even a satellite launch is troubling, in the tense context of the North's weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01