吃緊

吃紧
chījǐn
  1. in short supply
  2. dire
  3. tense
  4. critical
  5. hard-pressed
  6. important

CEDICT

  1. (of situation etc.) tense; intense
  2. important; serious
  3. tense; intense

Wiktionary

  1. 形容情勢緊張、急切。
  2. 重要、有分量。

重編國語辭典

  1. 迫切、緊張
  2. 重要，緊要

維基詞典

Entry Composition

=1 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=1 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
2 緊 jǐn
  1. tight
  2. strict
  3. close at hand
  4. near
  5. urgent
  6. tense
  7. hard up
  8. short of money
  9. to tighten

Related entries

緊缺 jǐnquē
  1. in short supply
  2. scarce
以前，想到城市，人们就会想到拥挤的街道、紧缺的车位、拥挤的交通、排得老长的队伍以及噪音和烟雾。

Before now, when you thought of a city, you thought of crowded streets, parking problems, traffic jams, queues, noise and fumes.

Source: Tatoeba

緊張 jǐnzhāng
  1. nervous
  2. keyed up
  3. intense
  4. tense
  5. strained
  6. in short supply
  7. scarce

classifier: 陣

你紧张吗？

Are you nervous?

Source: Tatoeba

時態 shítài (verb) tense
在韓語中，形容詞通常充當描述性動詞，這意味著它們可以像動詞一樣變位以表達不同的時態和語氣。

In Korean, adjectives often function as descriptive verbs, meaning they can be conjugated like verbs to express different tenses and moods.

Source: Tatoeba

時式 shíshì
  1. fashionable style
  2. (linguistics) tense
緊 jǐn
  1. tight
  2. strict
  3. close at hand
  4. near
  5. urgent
  6. tense
  7. hard up
  8. short of money
  9. to tighten
她眉頭緊鎖。

She scowled.

Source: Tatoeba

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