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- a portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground帐篷, 帐棚。
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- Medicine short for OXYGEN TENT.【医】OXYGEN TENT的简称。
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- with obj. cover with or as if with a tent由帐篷组成的; 用帐篷（或帐篷状物）遮盖的：
the garden had been completely tented over for supper.
花园已经用帐篷完全遮起以备吃晚餐。
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- arrange in a shape that looks like a tent使成帐篷状：
Tim tented his fingers.
蒂姆弓起手指成帐篷状。
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- as adj. tented composed of or provided with tents由帐篷组成的; 用帐篷遮盖的：
they were living in large tented camps.
他们住在宽敞的帐篷营地里。
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- no obj.(especially of travelling circus people) live in a tent（尤指马戏团）住帐篷, 在帐篷里宿营。
词源
Middle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- 'stretched', from the verb tendere. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.
mass noun
- a deep red sweet wine chiefly from Spain, used especially as sacramental wine西班牙红葡萄酒（一种深红色葡萄酒, 主要产于西班牙, 尤用作圣餐葡萄酒）。
词源
late Middle English: from Spanish tinto 'deep-coloured', from Latin tinctus 'dyed, stained', from the verb tingere.
- Surgery a piece of absorbent material inserted into an opening to keep it open, or especially to widen it gradually as the material absorbs moisture【外科】塞条, 塞子。
词源
late Middle English (also denoting a surgical probe)： from Old French tente, from tenter 'to probe', from Latin temptare 'handle, test, try'.