• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 四级真题
  • 柯林斯词典释义
例句
英语四级真题
    Many societies throughout history and around the world today have cultivated strong pressures to stay married.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
    In the absence of societal pressures to maintain pair-bonds, O'Sullivan suggests that romantic love has increasingly come to be seen as the factor that should determine who we stay with and for how long
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
    If you believe that you have found true romance, and your culture tells you that this is what a long-term relationship should be based on, there is less need to rely on social or family pressures to keep couples together, O'Sullivan argues.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • N-UNCOUNT
    压力
    Pressure is force that you produce when you press hard on something.
    例句
    She kicked at the door with her foot, and the pressure was enough to open it... 她用脚踢门,力气之大足以把门踹开。 The pressure of his fingers had relaxed... 他手指按压的力道减轻了。
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    压力;气压;压强
    The pressure in a place or container is the force produced by the quantity of gas or liquid in that place or container.
    例句
    The window in the cockpit had blown in and the pressure dropped dramatically... 驾驶舱的窗户突然向内破裂,气压急剧降低。 Warm air is now being drawn in from another high pressure area over the North Sea. 暖气流正从北海上空的另一个高气压带移动过来。
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    (向某人施加的)压力
    If there is pressure on a person, someone is trying to persuade or force them to do something.
    例句
    He may have put pressure on her to agree... 他可能向她施加了压力,迫使她同意。 Its government is under pressure from the European Commission... 其政府承受着来自欧盟委员会的压力。
  • N-UNCOUNT
    (工作等的)压力
    If you are experiencing pressure, you feel that you must do a lot of tasks or make a lot of decisions in very little time, or that people expect a lot from you.
    例句
    Can you work under pressure?... 你能在压力下工作吗? Even if I had the talent to play tennis I couldn't stand the pressure... 即使我有打网球的天赋,我也无法承受这种压力。
  • VERB
    强迫;迫使;竭力劝说
    If you pressure someone to do something, you try forcefully to persuade them to do it.
    例句
    He will never pressure you to get married... 他永远不会强迫你结婚。 The Government should not be pressured into making hasty decisions... 政府不应该迫于压力仓促作出决定。