| 单词 | tauten |
| 例句 | Or bathing it, I carefully turn the right- hand faucet, but it spouts hot water, scalding the baby until its skin tautens and its face becomes nothing but a red hole of a scream. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to curl up my tongue in front of the mirror and tauten my frenum into a white line, itself as thin as a razor blade. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Gripe, gripe, the enormous thigh muscles tautened in two convulsions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The rope to the lifeboat tautened with a jerk rather than with a tug, and the rocking of the raft became more pronounced and erratic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten: He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elf heads, and waited. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Gossaert is an incredibly fleshy painter, a consummate sensualist whose greatest talent is to play with the possibilities of the nude form, make skin ripple and tauten. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z His whole being tautens; the chin is implacable; justice is served. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The coach sound system hums, as if something tautened is endlessly reverberating. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z But this season moves with an icier malevolence than seasons past, and its focus has narrowed and tautened. "Billions" is better than "Game of Thrones" at studying power, hate and corruption 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z There were some fine transitions within scenes, in which the orchestra pushed the action into new dramatic territory with a darkening key change or a tautening of intensity. Santa Fe Opera Stages ‘Carmen’ 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z But as the summer wears on and the management begins withholding pay, the structure tightens, the conflicts tauten and Ms. Irwin’s larger concerns come into sharper focus. ‘My Mañana Comes’ Depicts Busboys on the Upper East Side 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Our attention flicks from executioner to client and back again – Kevin Dyer's direction gently tautens the tension. The Captain of Köpenick; Pierrepoint: The Hangman's Tale – review 2013-02-10T00:05:21Z It would be helpful if Mr. Suh had tidied up his material and tautened his second act, which lacks some of the furious zaniness of the first and ends at least three times. Review: With ‘Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery,’ Lloyd Suh Takes on a Legacy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Each succeeding visit to Heathrow or the beach is shorter, sometimes only by a second long; the rhythm accelerates vertiginously, the tension tautens. REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Guilty” is smartly constructed and tautened with regular twists, but, if it were merely clever, it wouldn’t test your nerves as it does. The Confounding Sadness of Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z At 9pm the sun went down behind the rig, quite spectacularly, and after that the tow-lines between Winner and her tugs visibly tautened. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z You feel a certain tautening of wit, plus a keen and very Coen-like awareness that clichés, which abound in the genre of the spy drama, are there to be flirted with. Steven Spielberg’s Cold War 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Holbein has simply painted a dead body, showing its greenish skin and tautening sinews as decay sets in. The top 10 corpses in art 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In cases where executions are accomplished by use of a crane, the extended arm is raised slowly, first tautening the rope, then lifting the condemned man from the ground. The Corner Where Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Meet 2012-10-18T22:47:58Z As the planet orbited, the field would tauten, getting stronger by drawing the planet closer, until it ultimately snapped, releasing massive amounts of energy. 'Superflares' Found to Erupt on Some Sun-Like Stars 2012-05-17T20:15:00.230Z Leaning well out of the open window, Kenyon peered along the glistening length of tautened cable until parting from the converging rays of the searchlight it vanished into space. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z "Dear me, how cosy it looks!" exclaimed Constance, involuntarily, her drooping muscles tautening to welcome the brightness waiting for her. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z On the evening in question it seemed that she had gone quite too far, and that even the hempen cable would not stand the strain which tautened it. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z There was silence, save for the pelting of rain on iron roofs, until it was broken by noise of the falling trap and the low whip-like snap of the tautened rope. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Then, spinning round as the grass rope attached to the sea-anchor tautened, the boat rode head to wind and sea. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z We gave the Skipper’s voice time to reach the wheelhouse, and then saw the wake visibly tauten out. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Stephen Hopkins's body tautened as he sat erect, and Constance sprang to her feet. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Webster entered the boat, the tow-line tautened, and the Swift gradually moved off in the direction of the barges. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Sure enough, the cable had tautened under the strain that was being put upon it. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Her anchor warp had not tautened, so that it was obvious that she had not shifted her position on the top of the previous high water. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Another order, and the anchor with its hempen cable fell with a sudden plunge into the water; the ship snubbed at the tautened rope, swung round and brought up, riding easily to wind and tide. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z It may have been that finding himself checkmated, dominated by a man he hated so sincerely, another fierce spasm of rage welled up within and ruptured some tautened blood-vessel. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Tobin went out and tautened the guy ropes. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z I tottered off to my own anxiety atrium, where brains are tautened, muscles stretched to screaming point, and fear washes over us all. David Cameron gets a new set of job loss figures 2010-06-30T18:39:00Z Gradually the aerial tautened, as a score of brown-faced, thin-limbed natives tailed on to the hauling part of the wire halliard. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z As the lot approaches, one's heartbeat quickens, the mouth grows dry, the body tautens. Art Auctions: Theater With a Winner 2010-03-19T19:36:00Z This alteration of course brought the wind and sea on the Medusa's quarter, causing her to override repeatedly, and so put a great strain on the towing hawser each time that it tautened out. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War The girl closed her eyes and fancied a pendulum swinging in the dark, and as it registered seconds her nerves tautened until the impulse to scream became poignant. The Tempering The belaying-pin which held the tackle had broken, the boom flew over to the other side, and the sheet tautened out like a bow-string. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document "Lift!" she said, and beneath her hands she felt the long, pliant muscles spring and tauten and harden. The Land of Strong Men From each ship that lies moored, the cable from the bows, tautened to its anchor, makes a run of silver light. To Cuba and Back It’s about the same thing as just happened to us, except that the tautened wire only rang the stand-by bell, the signal for the men to set the depth-charges. Sea-Hounds His chest heaved in a gasp-like breath and the hands which he sought to keep hanging, slowly closed and clenched as muscles tauten under an electric shock. The Tempering As the brig drifted astern the rope fastened on the quarter gradually tautened until the strain on the anchor checked us, allowing the vessel to swing around until her top-sails filled. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document For a moment it yielded, tautened and snapped back, tearing his tight grip loose. The Land of Strong Men Within, Pete sat upon his shiny bench, rolling waxed end upon his shiny knee, and tautened his double stitches through the night, scarcely feeling the need of sleep. A Man in the Open An upholstered chair, sunk in the room's pool of darkness, trembled on its own tautened springs, and the woman trembled of that same tautness and leaned farther out. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Sail after sail was set, and the bellying sheets tautened as flat as the nimble seamen could draw them. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The long-suffering beasts tautened to their collars, and pulled out again. In the Whirl of the Rising As Elderburg leaped for the door with a muffled roar, the lookout's voice tautened. Feline Red The rope tautened from the side–and at the very instant the mad steer collided with Sue Latrop’s mount. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure He saw Shabako pass a hand over his face, as if his body were suddenly tired; but the next moment it tautened again and he swung around. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The cable tautened the final fraction of a centimeter. Where I Wasn't Going I tautened, waiting for him to call out, determined to sell my life as dearly as I could. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 He heard the harsh scream of the wind aloft, the vibrant thrumming of tautened stays, the banging of a block, the crash of boarding seas. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Now he felt the tautened muscles release, so quickly that he would have fallen if he hadn't been braced against the seat. Dead Ringer Cold contempt tautened the thin, ascetic features of his face. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 He was sliding over the rail, the line tautening to his weight in no time, and he talking all the time. The Seiners Her slim straight figure tautened; her velvet soft eyebrows puckered over deep-lit pools. Slaves of Mercury About me now I could hear the deep breathing of my comrades and see their crouching figures and say that every nerve was tautened, every faculty awakened. The House Under the Sea A Romance Violet asked, and Mr. Vandeford shot a quick glance of question at her as he felt the tautening of the muscles in the white arms that he had in his grasp of untangling. Blue-grass and Broadway It gave a little way, and then tautened. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation The Johnnie was still shooting and when the line tautened it came as near to pulling my arms out of my shoulders as ever I want to have them again. The Seiners The tow-line had now tautened, at right angles to the two boats and the predicament was laughable. Tales of the Fish Patrol A quick whirl—and how the line did tauten and the rod bend! The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Her face hardened remarkably, so that her chin set as if tautened by iron bands. Desert Dust As the line tautened with his weight it gave several inches, but he was too nearly frantic to heed. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Captured at length and shrieking in abject terror, they would go flying skyward from the tautened blanket. The Tale of a Trooper To gently tauten and then slacken a rope three times before giving a heavy pull, the object being to concentrate the force of several men. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A faltering cheer broke out, gathered volume, and, as the couplings tautened with a jerk, came an answering roar from the closely packed carriages. The Long Trick "Ah, my partner is not the man to lose time in an important matter like this, Captain Ryan," said Frewen; "your tow-line will be tautened out before the three hours we mentioned." John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904 Except for a tautened flickering of the muscles about the mouth, there was no sign that the other had heard him. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The hawser was tautened up, while the boat hung on to it, ready to receive the next comers. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. His face tautened and his arms lay limp as he read through it. Victory His body tautened against the straps holding it in the acceleration couch. Pushbutton War Instantly the thin flanks of the creature tautened, he laid his tail over the dashboard, stretched his neck, flattened his ears and settled himself close to the ground in action that showed sinful training. A Circuit Rider's Wife They found the loose rope, tautened it, hooked the bight into an open sheave in the stanchion, and listlessly walked forward with it. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea "Hurry, dear, or you'll be left," warned Mr. Adams, anxiously—for already the gangplank ropes had been tautened by the donkey-engine and the plank was trembling to rise. Gold Seekers of '49 She placed her hands on her slim hips and tautened her figure. Erik Dorn Lennon plunged down nearly a dozen feet before the tautened rope stopped his fall with a violent jerk. Bloom of Cactus Perhaps the slackening of his will, tautened to meet death as his caste demanded that he should, and the confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had completely unnerved him. Witch-Doctors The whistle shrieked again, the warp tautened, and tug and lifeboat made for the mouth of the harbour. The Lifeboat He braced as the rawhide tautened; it snapped tight, and head down, heels up, the bull capsized in a twinkling. Gold Seekers of '49 The driven restlessness that had made Conscience doubt her sanity was slowly yielding to a sense of repose, as the tautened anguish of a mangled body relaxes to the balm of an anesthetic. The Tyranny of Weakness They had not seen a warp of a vessel getting into the row, and had run over it, and, as it tautened, they capsized. Jacob Faithful Pay out then, quick, quick, just keeping a “feel” of the fellow’s mouth, and as he slacks his speed, tauten your line, and pull in with all your strength. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors “Let us tauten the bowsprit shrouds a bit,” said Ellis. Ernest Bracebridge School Days They bent and cracked with the greatly increased strain to which they were exposed; the weather-shrouds and stays were tautened to the utmost. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War He was just in time, for a few seconds later the rope tautened. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries The wind had fallen slightly, and the boat crept up to the entrance of Cromwell's Sound with sail that alternately tautened its sheet and let it fall slack. Major Vigoureux Suddenly he tautens up his muscles and stands up straight with shoulders back and clenched hands. Plays of Near & Far The jib was hoisted and bowsed well up, then the backstays, and the topmast-stays were tautened. Ernest Bracebridge School Days Hard life on the island had thinned him down and tautened and toughened him so that I wondered sometimes, washing his body, if this was indeed the man with whom I had vowed my quarrel. Foe-Farrell He saw the anchor chain slowly tauten, then the Petrel moved no more. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World His diaphragm tautened with the sharp pain of long-unused muscles, and he sneezed. The Sky Is Falling The tragic necessity of puns tautened and hardened Hood's genius; so that there is always a sort of shadow of that sharpness across all his serious poems, falling like the shadow of a sword. The Victorian Age in Literature The strain came on the windlass, the chain tautened like a string, vibrated—and the handle of the screw-brake moved in slight jerks. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Nevertheless, despite these novel, distressing experiences, despite throbbing pulses, over-stimulated senses, and nerves tautened to the snapping point, the situation is by no means lacking in fascination. Atlantis His voice was steady—each note of each word quiet, true, subdued; but when the brain is tautened, vibrating as was his, it gives out of itself unconsciously. Sally Bishop A Romance He tautened and his body rose slowly from the ground. The Sky Is Falling What was it, then, that suddenly strengthened this solitary link so that the chain tautened and he felt the pull of it? Four Weird Tales Then the No. 5 would close the net, tauten the ropes which made it a purse, and haul out into deep water. Poor Man's Rock Nan's face went very white, and half-unconsciously her grip tautened round the letter she was holding, crushing it together. The Moon out of Reach She lay crumpled on the bed, her legs drawn up, twisted, bent; one arm thrown out covering her face, her other hand gripping a corner of the bed-clothes, stretching out from her in tautened creases. Sally Bishop A Romance The two gangs—twenty men to each windlass—took it up with one voice, and to the deep intoned chant the chains tautened, shuddered for a moment, and began to lift. The Ship of Stars George, giving vent to a dismayed oath, reeled in until the line tautened again, and the point of the rod dipped. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Darling, when you say things like—like what you said, I feel as if you didn't love me—" Of course the reproach tautened her courage; "I do! The Vehement Flame An oily calm spreading across the sea from shoreward overhauled her by degrees, overtook, and held her, with sails idle and sheets tautening and sagging as she rolled on the heave of the swell. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 The situation was as strained, as tautened, as is the gut of a snapping fiddle-string. Sally Bishop A Romance Instantly and intensely alive, Io tautened it and felt the jerk of Ban's signal. Success A Novel I stood up and rubbed my legs till the taut tendons softened and stretched ... but when I dared bend them the littlest, the tautening and drawing twisted them again. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative He tautened his own figure that he might be ready. The Hosts of the Air The tow-rope, tautening under the last stroke of our oars, had drawn the boat back in its recoil, and she now drifted close under the Gauntlet's jibboom, which ran out upon a very short bowsprit. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Speak to me when you feel it coming; I don't want it to tauten you up with a jerk. Lady Good-for-Nothing The rope tautened, and there was a sharp crack from below. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 When I tried to rise, my captors tautened the rope and dragged me along the ground. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Begin your practice for the development of determination, then, by training your muscles to tauten the instant you think determinedly. Certain Success When Gus began to slide—as he soon must—would he, Hazard, be able to take in the slack and then meet the shock as the other tautened the rope and darted toward the plunge? Dutch Courage and Other Stories His muscles tautened as again he fought some certain of those enormous moments when the whole of life was bound up solely in the unspeakable necessity to win. If Winter Comes The light skiff at the end of the long painter whipped around when the line tautened. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper Instantly his muscles tautened, instantly he brought his rifle to position; but he soon let it fall again and smiled, perhaps, for the first time that day. In Old Kentucky Joe was already creeping toward the bow, and, having reached it, he crouched there, blinded by rain and spray, and waited for the rope to tauten. The Adventure Club Afloat The boom creaked in the goose-neck, and at every roll the slack of the mainsheet tautened with a kind of little thud which thrilled the deck behind me. Hills and the Sea A familiar voice, issuing from the lips of the faun—a voice made natural and audible as the living human tones, by means of a delicate microphone attachment inside the bronze head—tautened his nerves. The Flying Legion The rigging tautened, and the huge sails flapped in thunder as the Harpoon sped upon her course, and all around was greatness and the present majesty of power. Mr. Meeson's Will Finally, when they reached a rocky "barren," where the little fire had found no fuel, she felt his tautened thews relax. In Old Kentucky At ten o’clock the Ebba was still rocking lazily at anchor, her stem up stream and her cable tautened by the rapidly ebbing tide. Facing the Flag The music filled the air with heavenly harmony, and it set him to vibrating like a tautened string; it rippled forth, softer than the breeze, more haunting than the perfume of the frangipani. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories His powerful frame tautened; his thick, corded neck swelled with the intensity of his emotion as his head went forward, staring. The Flying Legion Primers were placed in the vents of the already loaded guns, and the gun-captains stepped back, tautening the lock-strings, and bending down to glance along the sights. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Luckily, the hawser as it tautened, brought a fluke directly under the yard, within the Flemish horse, the brace-block, and all the other ropes that are fitted to a lower yard-arm. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Another signal, after a brief wait, and the drum rolled faster, the line tautened like a fiddle-string, and the ponderous machine vibrated with the strain of its effort. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest The main-sheet slacked and dipped, then shot over our heads after the boom and tautened with a crash on the traveller. Tales of the Fish Patrol As he slid it to his lips, they tautened. The Flying Legion His nerves had ceased their jangling under the tautening of necessity. Within the Law The Killer braced himself with the rope across his hip, and as the antelope tautened the singing strands in a last frantic bound for liberty he was thrown over upon his back. Son of Tarzan He shifted his feet slightly, tautened his muscles with a tentative pull, then relaxed again, questing for a perfect adjustment of all the levers of his body. Burning Daylight Then the whole rod arched suddenly, the reel sang, the line tautened and cut diagonally through the water. Blix The Legionaries' hearts tautened again with faith in this strange, this usually silent and emotionless man whose very name was unknown to almost all of them. The Flying Legion The ice glared like fire, A long bright Hell of choking cold, And each vein was a tautened wire, Throbbing with torture — and I crawled. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems The chain tautened, the massive links sang to the strain, and the great beast gave a roar which shook the walls. The Lost Continent The tree, deeper in the water, was travelling faster, and the painter tautened as the boat took the tow. Burning Daylight These tauten and distend — one sea of wheat, Islanded with black cities, borders now The voluminous blue pavilion of day. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 Take good hold of the lift, Mr. Drewett, and steady yourself with both hands; ease away the peak halyards to tauten that lift a little more, forward. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale Another rush, met by a paying-out, a gradual tautening of the line, a strong and steady pull. Darkness and Dawn The mania for murder that obsessed him tautened his sinews. Caesar Dies They just tautened all my nerves and made me feel that all my questions were impertinent, and all my good wishes flat and empty, and that I resembled a visitor to a Zoo. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement The cord tautened; the swathings sundered and fell from the gleaming splendor of marble, and a blinding flash, followed by another, and a third, blotted out the scene in unbearable radiance. Average Jones The lassoes were tautened, and the youngster thrown over on his side. Here, There and Everywhere Around the girl he drew his right arm; she felt his muscles tauten as he clasped her to him. Darkness and Dawn It tautened and drew up almost to a straight line, so tense that it sang like a violin string in the sharp wind gusts. Out of the Primitive Then flashes deep down, and in incredibly short time a large speckled trout rose to the bait, and Polly felt her nerves tauten with the excitement of the sportsman. Polly of Pebbly Pit He caught the netting in both hands and tautened it sharply. Average Jones Then they saw her muscles tauten throughout her whole young body, saw her draw herself up to her full height, and again for a second's space she stood still. The Maid of the Whispering Hills “What the devil now?” thought Stern, tautening event muscle for the expected attack. Darkness and Dawn At daylight, as the collier steamed ahead and tautened our tow-line, we could see the parties of searchers with torches scouring the beach. By Reef and Palm We remounted the steamer's paddles and tautened all the rigging of the diahbeeah; mended sails, and thoroughly repaired for a start to-morrow. Ismailia On sped the Gudruda and the cable tautened—now her stern kissed the bow of Ospakar's ship, as though she was towing her, and thus for a space they travelled through the seas. Eric Brighteyes The thick rope tautens as the firemen lay their weight to it. Back Home And his own tautened nerves almost gave way. Dangerous Days The limp arms tautened into steel as he wrenched them loose, and, whirling around, he whipped his fist to the chin of one of the two guards. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Oofty-Oofty took a turn on a bitt, the rope tautened, and the Ghost, lunging onward, jerked the cook to the surface. The Sea Wolf I gave my palm branch a wave or two, for luck, and then I tautened up my harp-strings and struck in. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven |
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