strained
/stɹeɪ̯nd/ 形容词 C1中文： 紧张的、勉强的、过滤的
- Forced through a strainer. · Babies don’t seem to like strained peas, even though the puree is easy for them to eat and digest.
- Under tension; tense. · Ever since the fight our relationship has been strained.
- Not natural or spontaneous but done with effort · A strained smile.
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“I think my ankle is strained,” she said.
Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
“I won’t tell her tonight that she can stay,” she reflected, as she strained the milk into the creamers.
With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the examinations.
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