tighten
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['taɪtn'taɪt(ə)n]
- 美式音标 [ˈtaɪ.tən]
- 国际音标 ['taitən]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt.使緊；勒緊；固定
- vi.變緊
词根记忆
- tight(緊的) + en(使…)→(使)變緊
同根派生
- adj性質的同根詞
- tight：緊的；密封的；繃緊的；麻煩的；嚴厲的；沒空的；吝嗇的。
- adv性質的同根詞
- tight：緊緊地；徹底地。
- tightly：緊緊地；堅固地。
- n性質的同根詞
- tightness：緊密，堅固。
英汉例句
- An attempt by anti-abortionists to tighten the rules was defeated.
反墮胎者所作的加強法槼的嘗試失敗了。 - I used my thumbnail to tighten the screw on my lamp.
我用拇指指甲把台燈上的螺釘擰緊了。 - Until this week, every attempt to tighten up the law had failed.
到本周爲止，一切旨在嚴格執法的努力都失敗了。 - The United States plans to tighten the economic sanctions currently in place.
美國計劃加大現有經濟制裁的力度。 - He knows he has considerable support for his plans to tighten his grip on the machinery of central government.
他清楚有相儅多的人支持他對中央政府機搆加強控制的計劃。
词组短语
- Tighten Belts 勒緊褲腰帶
- tighten belt 節省開支
- Tighten bolts 擰緊螺栓
- tighten n 使變緊
- Then Tighten 然後緊固
短語
英英字典
- to become tighter or to make something become tighter, firmer, or less easy to move
- If you tighten your grip on something, or if your grip tightens, you hold the thing more firmly or securely.
- If you tighten a rope or chain, or if it tightens, it is stretched or pulled hard until it is straight.
- If a government or organization tightens its grip on a group of people or an activity, or if its grip tightens, it begins to have more control over it.
- When you tighten a screw, nut, or other device, you turn it or move it so that it is more firmly in place or holds something more firmly.
- Tighten up means the same as . ( )(tighten)
- If a part of your body tightens, the muscles in it become tense and stiff, for example, because you are angry or afraid.
- If someone in authority tightens a rule, a policy, or a system, they make it stricter or more efficient.
- Tighten up means the same as .
- to tighten your belt&rarrsee belt