The food situation is getting
tense after grain production targets were not met due to damage caused by typhoon last year.
去年台风造成破坏，粮食生产目标未能达到，粮食形势紧张。
Don't be nervous, it makes the muscles
tense up.
不要紧张，这会让肌肉紧张。
Mom sounded
tense and angry on the phone.
妈妈在电话里听起来很着急很生气。
Mr. Ye Jianchun, who is vice president of Danieli China, recalled the tense work of company crisis response team during Spring Festival.
"Despite the current (tense) international environment, Chint has maintained a growth momentum abroad, mainly thanks to logistics improvement and the Belt and Road Initiative," said Nan Cunhui, chairman and founder of Chint, on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions in Beijing.
Perkins may be forgiven if he gets heady on the sheer excitement of it all, without having to down 10 to 15 Budweiser beers during a tense game.
Meanwhile, Ofo is also in a tense relationship with its investor Didi Chuxing, the country's largest ride-hailing company, after Ofo CEO Dai Wei had disagreements with executives sent out by Didi to help Ofo better run its business.
With nearly 20 years' experience at multinational firms, Bi Lin left the relative safety of her company last year and started up her own business, resolved to test her ideas amid tense market competition.
However, the tense situation has not been alleviated and the shortage of shipping capacity is still increasing.
This seems an appropriate emphasis, given the relatively tense circumstances for international trade," he said.
US technology companies are operating in an environment of tense US-China relations, with the US government taking steps to restrict sales of US technology to major Chinese companies, particularly Huawei Technologies Co and SMIC, China's largest semiconductor manufacturer, citing national security concerns.
Even in the face of tense US-China relations, "many US multinationals remain keen to engage with China," said Louis Kuijs, chief Asia economist at Oxford Economics.
Experts highlight enhanced ties among members in an 'increasingly tense world'BRICS countries have made substantial achievements in the energy sector during the past few years with renewable energy emerging as a focus of cooperation between China and the rest of the member countries, according to a think tank official.
In an increasingly tense world, BRICS countries－Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa－are very complementary with the member countries being the world's major energy producers as well as major fuel consumers, said Yu Guo, president of the CNPC Economics and Technology Research Institute, during the first BRICS Energy Cooperation Forum held in Beijing on Tuesday.
The increasingly tense competition in the domestic market is a major reason for the overseas deployment, according to the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.
He expects markets in other parts of the world to remain tense.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, followed by successive waves of sanctions, further disrupted the already tense global commodities supply chain.
If the tense atmosphere can be eased later this year, it will be in the interests of the two nations.