• adj. 緊的；密封的；繃緊的；麻煩的；嚴厲的；沒空的；吝嗇的
• adv. 緊緊地；徹底地
• n. (Tight)人名；(英)泰特

來自中古英語 thight,拉緊的，來自 Proto-Germanic*thinhtaz,拉緊的，來自 PIE*tenkt,緊的，厚 的，來自 PIE*ten,伸長，拉緊，詞源同 tenure,tense.-ght,過去分詞格，詞源同 bright,caught. 引申諸相關詞義。

tight

tight: [14] Tight originally meant ‘dense’ (‘His squire rode all night in a wood that was full tight’, Torrent of Portugal 1435). It appears to have been an alteration of an earlier thight ‘dense, thickset’, which was borrowed from Old Norse théttr ‘watertight, dense’. And this, like German and Dutch dicht ‘dense, close’, came from a prehistoric Germanic *thingkhtaz, whose other relatives include Lithuanian tankus ‘thick, standing close together’, Irish contēcim ‘coagulate’, and Sanskrit ta?c- ‘contract’. The sense ‘firmly fixed’ developed in the 16th century, ‘drunk’ in the 19th century.

tight (adj.)

c. 1400, tyght "dense, close, compact," from Middle English thight, from Old Norse tettr "watertight, close in texture, solid," and also from Old English -tiht (compare second element in metetiht "stout from eating"), both from Proto-Germanic *thinhta- (cognates: Middle High German dihte "dense, thick," German dicht "dense, tight," Old High German gidigan, German gediegen "genuine, solid, worthy"), from PIE root *tenk- (2) "to become firm, curdle, thicken" (cognates: Irish techt "curdled, coagulated," Lithuanian tankus "close, tight," Persian tang "tight," Sanskrit tanakti "draws together, contracts").

Sense of "drawn, stretched" is from 1570s; meaning "fitting closely" (as of garments) is from 1779; that of "evenly matched" (of a contest, bargain, etc.) is from 1828, American English; that of "drunk" is from 1830. Of persons, "close, intimate, sympathetic" from 1956. From 1670s as an adverb; to sit tight is from 1738; sleep tight as a salutation in sending someone off to bed is by 1871. Related: Tightly; tightness. Tight-assed "unwilling to relax" is attested from 1903. Tight-laced is recorded from 1741 in both the literal and figurative senses. Tight-lipped is first attested 1872.

1. It is better to stretch the tight muscles first.

最好先伸展一下僵硬的肌肉。

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2. She walked off the plane in a miniskirt and tight top.

她身穿迷你裙和緊身上衣走下了飛機。

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3. He held on tight but she prised it from his fingers.

他抓得很緊，但她還是掰開他的手，把它拿走了。

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4. Sarah came forward with a tight and angry face.

薩拉走上前來，緊繃著臉，怒氣沖沖。

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5. Just hold tight to my hand and follow along.

抓緊我的手，跟著我。

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