uptight
音标：
英音/ ˌʌpˈtaɪt / 美音/ ˌʌpˈtaɪt /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
After meeting the parent of another kid at the park, an uptight couple is invited over by said parent for a play date.
在公园与另一个孩子的父母见面后，该父母邀请了一对紧张的夫妇参加游戏日期。
—Fox News
“When people are all uptight about something they can’t explain and the word ‘race’ is in the middle of it, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going on,” Perry said.
佩里说：“当人们对他们无法解释的事情和’种族’一词都在其中时，就不会需要火箭科学家来弄清楚发生了什么。”
—Washington Post
“On one hand she’s this very together, uptight, wise, knowledgeable character but then she sometimes does things that are just so out of control and messy.”
“一方面，她非常在一起，紧张，明智，知识渊博的角色，但后来她有时会做一些失控和混乱的事情。”
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
in a very tense state
紧张的；拮据的；心情焦躁的；易怒的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
If your friends are always telling you to relax, you may be a little uptight. People who are uptight tend to be stressed out. Your worried grandmother might be considered uptight, and so might your sister’s angry teacher who is always yelling at the class. The adjective uptight was first used as popular slang in the 1930’s to mean “tense.” In the 1960’s, the connotation changed to “straight-laced” or “conservative.” For a brief time, uptight appeared in jazz slang meaning “excellent.”
保持紧张是紧张的。当您紧张时，您会感到压力和焦虑。
长释义：
If your friends are always telling you to relax, you may be a little uptight. People who are uptight tend to be stressed out. Your worried grandmother might be considered uptight, and so might your sister’s angry teacher who is always yelling at the class. The adjective uptight was first used as popular slang in the 1930’s to mean “tense.” In the 1960’s, the connotation changed to “straight-laced” or “conservative.” For a brief time, uptight appeared in jazz slang meaning “excellent.”
如果您的朋友总是告诉您放松，那么您可能会有些紧张。紧张的人往往会感到压力。您担心的祖母可能会被认为是紧张的，您姐姐的愤怒老师也总是在大喊大叫。形容词的Uttight首先被用作1930年代的流行语，意思是“时态”。在1960年代，这种含义变为“直接”或“保守”。短暂的一段时间，爵士语中出现了“很棒”的爵士乐。
文学例句：
I told her about the math test, the fight, about my pops getting uptight about the tutor, and last about Margie.
我向她介绍了数学测试，战斗，关于我的流行音乐对导师的强烈态度，以及关于玛吉的最后。
—Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight.
他们认为抑郁只是一种悲伤的一种形式，强迫症是一种紧张的形式。
—Every Day by David Levithan
Now he was nodding as Shan said, “Europeans are just not as conservative and uptight about relationships as Americans are. In Europe the white men are thinking ‘I just want a hot woman.’
现在他点了点头，正如Shan所说：“欧洲人对人际关系的保守和紧张。在欧洲，白人男人在想“我只想要一个辣妹”。
—Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
词源：
uptight (adj.)”tense,” 1934, slang, from up- + tight (adj.). The meaning “straight-laced” is recorded by 1969. It was used in a sense of “excellent” in jazz slang by 1962.also from 1934
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
Up- + tight（adj。）的倾角（adj。）“时态”，lang语。 1969年记录了含义的“直线”。它是在1962年到1934年的爵士乐中使用的“优秀”。
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