pressure是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the force you produce when you press something -- 壓力

  • He put too much pressure on the door handle and it snapped. 他用力過猛，把門的把手弄斷了。

  • You can stop bleeding by applying pressure close to the injured area. 壓住傷口邊緣可以止血。

  • gas/water pressure 氣／水壓

  • The new material allows the company to make gas pipes which withstand higher pressures. 新材料使得公司可以生產出抗壓力更強的輸氣管。

  • The gas is stored under pressure (= in a container which keeps it at a higher pressure than it would usually have). 這種氣體是加壓貯存的。

• 1 the act of trying to make someone else do something by arguing, persuading, etc. -- 壓力，緊迫；催促

  • public/political pressure 公眾／政治壓力

  • Teachers are under increasing pressure to work longer hours. 教師們被迫長時間工作，壓力越來越大。

  • [ + to infinitive ] Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing. 要求放棄修建這條新高速公路的呼聲與日俱增。

  • The government is facing pressure from environmental activists. 政府正面臨著來自環保人士的壓力。

  • The Defence Secretary resigned under pressure from the Prime Minister (= because the Prime Ministerforced him to). 國防大臣是在首相的壓力下辭職的。

  • She's putting pressure on him (= trying to persuade him) to get married. 她在逼他結婚。

  • formal The international community is trying to bring pressure to bear on the government (= trying to persuade them) to resolve the situation. 國際社會正試圖說服該國政府解決問題。

  • She's got a lot of pressure on her at work just now. 她現在工作壓力很大。

  • Be nice to him - he's been under a lot of pressure recently. 對他好一點——最近他壓力很大。

  • Can you work well under pressure? 你在壓力下工作能做得好嗎？

  • the pressures of work 工作壓力

  • "These exams are the most important of all." "Oh, so no pressure then!" 「這些考試是所有考試中最重要的。」「哦！真的要加油了！」

  • Ryan Giggs put the home defence under pressure. 瑞恩·吉格斯給主場球隊的防守施壓。

  • Playing four forwards puts too much pressure on the defence. 派出四名前鋒會對防守造成太大壓力。

• 2 to strongly persuade someone to do something they do not want to do -- 強迫，對…施加壓力

  • She was pressured into joining the club. 她被迫加入那個俱樂部。