| 词汇 | pressure |
| 释义 | pressure noun uk /ˈpreʃ.ər/ us /ˈpreʃ.ɚ/ pressurenoun (PUSHING)C2[ U ] the force you produce when you press something: 压力 He put too much pressure on the door handle and it snapped.他用力过猛，把门把手弄断了。 You can stop bleeding by applying pressure close to the injured area.压住伤口边缘可以止血。 C1[ C or U ] the force that a liquid or gas produces when it presses against an area: （液体或气体产生的）压力，压强 gas/water pressure气／水压 The new material allows the company to make gas pipes which withstand higher pressures.新材料使得公司可以生产出耐压力更强的输气管道。 The gas is stored under pressure (= in a container which keeps it at a higher pressure than it would usually have).这种气体是加压贮存的。 If you apply pressure to a cut it's meant to stop the bleeding.如果你按压住伤口，就会止住流血。 She tried to cure the pain in my knee by putting manual pressure on the joint.她尝试用手按压我的膝关节来治疗我的膝盖痛。 The alarm is activated by the lightest pressure.最轻微的压力也会触动警报。 My ankle is extremely painful if I put any pressure on it. The vacuum inside the tube caused it to implode when the external air pressure was increased.随着外部气压的增强，管内真空使管中发生内爆。 Physics: energy, force & power animal magnetism anti-gravity attract attraction ballistic entropic entropically equilibrant erg excited geothermal inertia jet propulsion preatomic propulsive radiant energy self-propulsion sine curve the sound barrier thermodynamics pressurenoun (PERSUADING)B2 the act of trying to make someone else do something by arguing, persuading, etc.: 压力，紧迫；催促 public/political pressure公众／政治压力 Teachers are under increasing pressure to work longer hours.教师们被迫长时间工作，压力越来越大。 [ + to infinitive ]Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing.要求放弃修建这条新的高速公路的呼声与日俱增。 The government is facing pressure from environmental activists.政府正面临着来自环境保护主义者的压力。 The Defence Secretary resigned under pressure from the Prime Minister (= because the Prime Ministerforced him to).国防大臣是在首相的压力下辞职的。 She's putting pressure on him (= trying to persuade him) to get married.她在逼他结婚。 formalThe international community is trying to bring pressure to bear on the government (= trying to persuade them) to resolve the situation.国际社会正试图说服该国政府解决问题。 B2[ C or U ] a difficult situation that makes you feel worried or unhappy: 压力；困扰 She's got a lot of pressure on her at work just now.她现在工作压力很大。 Be nice to him - he's been under a lot of pressure recently.对他好一点——最近他压力很大。 Can you work well under pressure?你在压力下工作能做得好吗？ the pressures of work工作压力 so no pressure then!humorous something that you say when what someone has just said makes you feel that you must try very hard to do something: 压力来了 "These exams are the most important of all." "Oh, so no pressure then!"“这些考试是所有考试中最重要的。”“哦！有压力了吧！” [ U ] a situation in a football game in which attacking players are moving forward and getting closer to scoring a goal, and players from the opposing team have to work hard to stop them from scoring: （足球比赛中）一方向前进攻，临近进球，对方不得不全力防守 Ryan Giggs put the home defence under pressure.瑞恩·吉格斯给主场球队的防守施压。 Playing four forwards puts too much pressure on the defence.派出四名前锋会对防守造成太大压力。 They are putting pressure on the government to equalize state pension ages between men and women.他们正在向政府施压，希望在国家养老金发放的年龄问题上实现男女平等。 Some managers exert considerable pressure on their staff to work extra hours without being paid.一些老板向员工施加巨大的压力迫使他们无偿加班。 He's putting pressure on me to change my mind.他正在对我施加压力，想让我改变主意。 Despite renewed pressure to give up the occupied territory, they will not yield.尽管有新的压力要求放弃被占领的土地，他们就是不愿屈服。 Her confession could not be admitted as evidence because it was given under pressure from the police. Causing somebody to act arm-twisting bludgeon bounce someone into something browbeat someone into something/doing something bull something through coerce coercion dragoon someone into something drive someone/something to something duress force someone's handidiom forced marriage push (someone) toward(s) something push something through put the heat on someoneidiom put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom rallying cry ransom slap wring You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Urging & persuading Anxiety and worry - general words Trying and making an effort Competing in sport Football/soccer pressure verb[ T ] USuk /ˈpreʃ.ər/ us /ˈpreʃ.ɚ/(UKpressurize) to strongly persuade someone to do something they do not want to do: 强迫，对…施加压力 She was pressured into joining the club.她被迫加入那个俱乐部。 Synonym coerceformal Causing somebody to act arm-twisting bludgeon bounce someone into something browbeat someone into something/doing something bull something through coerce coercion dragoon someone into something drive someone/something to something duress force someone's handidiom forced marriage push (someone) toward(s) something push something through put the heat on someoneidiom put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom rallying cry ransom slap wring You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Urging & persuading pressure | American Dictionarypressure noun us/ˈpreʃ·ər/ pressurenoun (FORCE)[ C/U ] the force produced by pressing against something: [ U ]air/blood/water pressure [ C/U ] physics Pressure is also the force that is put on a surface with reference to the area of the surface. pressurenoun (INFLUENCE)[ C/U ] a strong, often threatening influence on an organization or person: [ C ]Competitive pressures will force the company to sell off its factories. [ C/U ] If you put pressure on someone, you try to cause that person to do something by persuading or threatening them: [ U ]They put a lot of pressure on him to resign. pressurenoun (WORRY)[ U ] worry and fear caused by the feeling that you have too many responsibilities and cares: I like this job – there’s not so much pressure to produce every day. pressureverb[ T ]us/ˈpreʃ·ər/ She was pressured into signing the agreement. pressure | Business Englishpressure noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈpreʃər/us a situation in which someone tries to make someone else do something by arguing, persuading, etc.: public/political pressure The guidelines were imposed under pressure from Congress. a difficult situation, or the worried feeling that such a situation can give you: pressure on sbShe's got a lot of pressure on her at work just now. He doesn't work well under pressure. The pressures of work are making her depressed. put pressure on sb/sth to put someone or something in a difficult situation, or to try and persuade or force someone to do something: Analysts said the lack of supply would undoubtedly put pressure on prices. Examples of pressurepressure Initially, as the plasma plume is formed, the particle pressure is very high due to high value of pressure and density. Since the key issue is the psychological pressure that law can exert on every individual mind, the law must be clear, well diffused, and foreseeable. For instance, over-blowing on a wind instrument can cause an octave rise, which holds as the pressure is reduced. The duct was then replaced and the oscillating pressure measured in similar conditions. The surprising behaviour of the surfaces of constant total pressure occurs entirely in the boundary layer. This residue in its turn is then subjected to distillation under reduced pressure to give both a vacuum distillate and a vacuum residue. Possibly, this urban market absorbed part of the area's rural workforce, thereby lightening the pressure on those who sought access to arable land. High pressure studies of energy transfer and strongly coupled bacteriochlorophyll dimers in photosynthetic protein complexes. The right ventricular systolic pressure tends to decrease with age. Thus, each year the worms were subjected to selection pressure during 2 steps, and to genetic drift during 22 steps. Following a pressure increase in the pipette, the cell suspension was transferred to seminiferous tubules (dark blue). The turbulence energy balance is examined, including the separate effects of vertical diffusion of pressure and local kinetic energy. However, escalating divergence of the populations is unlikely in the presence of gene flow unless they experience persistently different selection pressures. The vertical structure of both the wind velocity and pressure fields shows interesting variation along the wave profile. The basic uncertainty in pressure readings was estimated t o be 0.003 vertical inches of water. See all examples of pressure These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withpressurepressureThese are words often used in combination with pressure. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. added pressure That would have been an addedpressure to make sales. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 ambient pressure The results show that the ambient pressure has an important effect on the properties of plasmas such as intensity, emission lifetime and line broadening. applied pressure He also considered the effects of an appliedpressure gradient. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with pressure |
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