English主要词典
taut
Universal Words
adjective
1 stretched tightly:
taut violin strings * Keep the rope taut. * His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
2 showing that you are anxious or tense:
a voice taut with anger * Her face was taut and pale.
3 (of a person or their body) with firm muscles; not fat:
His body was solid and taut.
4 (of a piece of writing, etc.) tightly controlled, with no unnecessary parts in it:
a taut thriller * the writer's taut prose
tautly adverb
tautness noun [U]
