1. Snowbell: Tense? Oh, I'm way past tense. 雪铃：紧张？哦，我岂止是紧张！
2. Anticipatory anxiety – Instead of feeling relaxed and like yourself in between panic attacks, you feel anxious and tense. 期待性焦虑---在两次惊恐袭击之间，你不是感到放松、常态，而是焦虑、紧张。
3. Under the control of two invisible hands, money and power, human relationship in modern society become estranged, apathy and tense. 现代社会的人际关系，在金钱和权力两只“看不见的手”的控制之下日趋疏远、冷漠、紧张。
4. The tense man sitting in the pilot's seat swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air, though flying erratically. 坐在驾驶员位子上的紧张男子，将飞机回转之后逆风而行，尽管飞行得并不稳定，但片刻之后他们还是升到了空中。
5. The tense situation in the countryside last spring was chiefly due to the grain problem. 我们今年春季农村的紧张情况，主要是由于粮食问题引起的。
