0 to push something firmly, often without causing it to move permanently further away from you -- 按，壓；推；擠
Over 3,000 copies of the CD were pressed and sent out to college radio stations. 錄製了超過3000張雷射唱片並送到各個大學的廣播電台。
to press grapes 榨葡萄汁
I'll just press these trousers. 我正要把這些褲子熨平。
The crowd pressed against the locked doors trying to get into the building. 人群推擠著上鎖的門想進到樓裡。
Can you press a little harder on my shoulders, please? 你按壓我的肩膀時能再用力一點嗎？
1 to try hard to persuade someone to do something -- 敦促；逼迫；催促
Once again he tried to press his case for promotion. 他又一次竭力要求升職。
The family have decided not to press charges against him. 這家人決定不對他提出訴訟。
Can I press you further on (= persuade you to say more about) this issue? 我能否要求你對這件事作進一步說明？
He's pressing me for an answer. 他逼著我作出答覆。
[ + obj + to infinitive ] The committee pressed him to reveal more information. 委員會敦促他透露更多資訊。
2 newspapers and magazines, and those parts of television and radio that broadcast news, or reporters and photographers who work for them -- 報刊；報道；新聞界；記者，新聞工作者
Freedom of the press (= the right of newspapers to publish news and opinions without being controlled by the government) must be upheld. 新聞自由必須得到捍衛。
The press was out in force at the awards ceremony. 記者紛紛去採訪頒獎儀式。
The charity invited the press (= reporters and photographers) to a presentation of its plans for the future. 這家慈善機構邀請新聞界參加其未來計劃的介紹說明會。
press reporters/photographers 新聞記者／攝影師
The incident has been widely reported in the press. 報刊大幅報道了此事。
3 a business that prints and produces books and similar things -- 出版社；印刷廠
Cambridge University Press 劍橋大學出版社
5 a firm push against something using the fingers -- 按，壓，推，擠
Based on the epidemiological data of our study, there is a pressing need to implement control measures on this population.
Specifically, they pressed for high tariffs on select groups of goods and low or zero tariffs on raw materials, intermediate, and capital goods.
Large groups, perhaps corporate parties, find appropriate places for pressing flesh, or whatever it is that they do.
The intestine was then divided into ten equal sections, pressed in a trichine compressorium and cysticercoids counted under the microscope.
One is the arrival of keyboard microcomputers, the twentieth-century equivalent of the fifteenth-century printing presses...
In essence, beginners pressed for being included as the beneficiaries of this technology.
Care should be taken to support the elbow and humerus by simultaneously pressing them against the fetal chest.
Her comrades pressed her to go, but she was already distancing herself from them and decided to stay behind.
