tension
US:/ˈtenʃ(ə)n/
UK:/'tenʃ(ə)n/
n.:
张力；拉伸；矛盾；紧张局势（或关系、状况）
v.:
绷紧
网络:
拉力；压力；拉紧
Word forms: (复数) tensions
Examples
1.
Since the two modes of thinking have their own insuperable limitations, a tension should be kept between them.
由于二者都具有自身难以克服的局限性，所以应使二者之间保持必要的张力。
2.
You're trained to talk, talk, talk it out when there's tension in the air because you want a resolution.
在气氛紧张时，你被训练成说、说、说出来，因为你要一个解答。
3.
The bottom half of the road experiences tension, meaning that it elongates like a spring pulled apart.
路的下端也受到张力，这意味着它像一个伸长的弹簧一样拉长。
4.
Wettability depends on one specific property of the surface: Surface energy, often referred to as surface tension.
润湿性依赖于某一特定财产的表面：表面能量，通常称为表面张力。
5.
Tension headaches can be stress-related or due to problems with the muscles in the neck and face, but there is often no obvious cause.
它们的诱发原因，可能和压力有关，也可能由颈部或脸部的肌肉出现问题引起，但原因往往不明显。
6.
Superior survival, the inefficient ones made it out of the ever-changing face of the loss of things is often psychological tension.
优者生存，劣者淘汰使得人们面对不断变迁的事物时常出现不知所措的紧张心理。
7.
America and China, too, could easily fall into a cycle of escalating tension that would be hard to break.
中美也很可能落入一个升级的紧张关系中无法自拔。
8.
He says the civilians are trying to break the embargo to bring relief to people in Gaza and he hopes there will not be any tension.
他说，平民试图打破封锁，以减轻加沙人民，他希望不会再有任何的紧张局势。
9.
In the beginning we thought that on the wrong car, and like clockwork, like the heart of the tension.
一开始我们以为上错车了，心像发条一样绷紧了。
10.
The tension is always loop-shaped and cannot be separated from its return to the erogenous zone.
这个敏感的地带是个回旋的形状，无法跟它的的回转地带区隔开来。