strained

/streynd/US // streɪnd //UK // (streɪnd) //

紧绷绷的,紧张的,紧绷的,紧绷着脸

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.

adj.forced, pretended

Synonyms

Still, the narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put the country through.
It’s got the same pump-up-the-heart music, the same slick videos, the same strained, middle-aged corporate exuberance.
Despite this, e-commerce has been one of the bright spots for publishers’ stretched and strained ad revenue lines.
Now, sharing strained relations with the United States, the two are increasingly finding a common cause.
Winners and losers in our suddenly super-strained food system.
His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.
We unzipped the body bag, and a crowd of craned necks strained to get a look.
The alliance between America and rebel forces has been strained by the U.S. refusal to directly attack the Assad regime.
This has resulted in a huge influx of patients into an already strained system.
But Schiff said this “has the feeling of a lawyerly kind of argument, to put the best case on a pretty strained legal theory.”
So strained became the relations between them, that for the last part of the advance they no longer met at meals.

/streynd/US // streɪnd //UK // (streɪnd) //

紧绷绷的,紧张的,紧绷的,紧绷着脸

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.

adj.forced, pretended

Synonyms

Still, the narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put the country through.
It’s got the same pump-up-the-heart music, the same slick videos, the same strained, middle-aged corporate exuberance.
Despite this, e-commerce has been one of the bright spots for publishers’ stretched and strained ad revenue lines.
Now, sharing strained relations with the United States, the two are increasingly finding a common cause.
Winners and losers in our suddenly super-strained food system.
His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.
We unzipped the body bag, and a crowd of craned necks strained to get a look.
The alliance between America and rebel forces has been strained by the U.S. refusal to directly attack the Assad regime.
This has resulted in a huge influx of patients into an already strained system.
But Schiff said this “has the feeling of a lawyerly kind of argument, to put the best case on a pretty strained legal theory.”
So strained became the relations between them, that for the last part of the advance they no longer met at meals.