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词汇 straining
释义 straining
present participle ofstrain
strain
verb
uk /streɪn/ us /streɪn/

strainverb (SEPARATE)


[ T ]
to separate liquid food from solid food, especially by pouring it through a utensil with small holes in it: 滤,过滤(食物)
Could you strain the vegetables, please.你能把菜滤一滤吗?
be strained offThe oil in which the fish is fried is strained off and used to cook potatoes.煎鱼的油在过滤之后用来炸土豆了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing food
batch cooking
biga
bind
breadmaking
butter
buttered
clarify
glaze
glazed
grate
ingredient
jerk
rehydrate
restuff
rice
rustle something up
scoby
toss
whip
zap

strainverb (PRESSURE)


B2[ I or T ]
to become stretched or to experience pressure, or to make something do or experience this: (使)紧张,(使)承受压力;拉紧,绷紧;损伤
I've put on such a lot of weight recently - this dress is straining at the seams.我最近胖了很多——这条裙子穿上后紧绷绷的。
I strained a muscle in my back playing squash.我打壁球拉伤了背肌。
strain your eyesDon't watch TV in the dark - you'll strain your eyes!不要在黑暗中看电视——会伤害你的眼睛!
[ + to infinitive ]figurativeI really had to strain (= try very hard)to reach those top notes.我确实得铆足了劲儿才能唱出那些最高的音。
strain (your ears)figurativeI was straining (my ears) (= listening hard) to hear what they were saying.我竖起耳朵,拼命想听清他们在说什么。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tight and tightening
astringency
chokehold
close-fitting
inelasticity
retighten
skinny
snug
stiffen
strain
straitly
super-tight
tauten
tautly
tense
tension
tight
tight-fitting
tighten
tighten something up
tightly

strainverb (MONEY)


C2[ T ]
to cause too much of something to be used, especially money: (尤指金钱)过多使用
Increases in wholesale oil prices have strained the company's finances.油料批发价的上涨让公司财务支出过多。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Too much and unnecessary
ado
be up to your neck (in something)idiom
bellyful
binge
carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom
gush
heavy-handed
hyper
immoderate
immoderately
inappeasable
infest
play gooseberryidiom
plenty
pleonasm
pleonastic
plethora
unneeded
unwarranted
weigh someone/something down

Idioms


be straining at the leash
strain after/for effect
strain every nerve

Examples of straining


straining

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


However, the present theory is restricted to steady axisymmetric pure straining flow (uniaxial extension).
The method involves straining a small quantity of each sample across a metal screen (mesh size 250 mm) after vigorous mixing.
The human mind, straining to interpret elusive detail at the limit of perception, invented narrow linear features that are simply not there.
In this way, small packets are shielded from the full straining potential of the boundary layer.
A sense of straining to resist an inevitable fall is powerfully evoked.
This is followed by the procedure of straining the mixture.
Emollient laxatives are reasonable when straining difficulty is the main problem.
This is not a lot to ask, and it should be possible to meet these criteria without straining anyone's budgets unduly.
Mysticetes have baleen plates that act like a giant filter, straining small animals (such as plankton and krill) from the seawater.
Progress to this columnar stage is relatively slow with a timescale much greater than a millisecond and the gravity-induced straining is clearly important.
In the following section, we shall discuss chaotic bubble motion and breakup in time-periodic straining flows.
In the present work we study the deformation of a cell in an imposed uniaxial straining flow.
This question cannot be answered a t the moment because there has been no direct investigation of the stability of axisymmetric straining flow.
Instead, we have investigated two steady flows: axisymmetric straining, and shear.
Straining to hear, you are already drawn into another life, someone else's business, and for that moment you leave yourself unprotected.
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