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/pres/US // prɛs //UK // (prɛs) //

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
    • : to move by weight or force in a certain direction or into a certain position: The crowd pressed him into a corner.
    • : to compress or squeeze, as to alter in shape or size: He pressed the clay into a ball.
    • : to weigh heavily upon; subject to pressure.
    • : to hold closely, as in an embrace; clasp: He pressed her in his arms.
    • : to flatten or make smooth, especially by ironing: to press clothes; to press flowers in the leaves of a book.
    • : to extract juice, sugar, etc., from by pressure: to press grapes.
    • : to squeeze out or express, as juice: to press the juice from grapes.
    • : to beset or harass; afflict: He was pressed by problems on all sides.
    • : to trouble or oppress; put into a difficult position, as by depriving: Poverty pressed them hard.
    • : to urge or entreat strongly or insistently: to press for payment of a debt; to press for an answer.
    • : to emphasize or propound forcefully; insist upon: He pressed his own ideas on us.
    • : to plead with insistence: to press a claim.
    • : to urge onward; hasten: He pressed his horse to go faster.
    • : to push forward.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to manufacture, especially by stamping from a mold or matrix.
    • : to exert weight, force, or pressure.
    • : Weightlifting. to raise or lift, especially a specified amount of weight, in a press.
    • : to iron clothing, curtains, etc.
    • : to bear heavily, as upon the mind.
    • : to perform tensely or overanxiously, as when one feels pressured or is determined to break out of a slump; strain because of frustration: For days he hasn't seemed able to buy a hit, and he's been pressing.
    • : to compel haste: Time presses.
    • : to demand immediate attention.
    • : to use urgent entreaty: to press for an answer.
    • : to push forward or advance with force, eagerness, or haste: The army pressed to reach the river by dawn.
    • : to crowd or throng.
    • : Basketball. to employ a press.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of pressing; pressure.
    • : the state of being pressed.
    • : printed publications collectively, especially newspapers and periodicals.
    • : all the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and transmit news, including newspapers, newsmagazines, radio and television news bureaus, and wire services.
    • : the editorial employees, taken collectively, of these media and agencies.
    • : a group of news reporters, or of news reporters and news photographers: The press are in the outer office, waiting for a statement.
    • : the consensus of the general critical commentary or the amount of coverage accorded a person, thing, or event, especially in newspapers and periodicals: The play received a good press. The minister's visit got a bad press.
    • : printing press.
    • : an establishment for printing books, magazines, etc.
    • : the process or art of printing.
    • : any of various devices or machines for exerting pressure, stamping, or crushing.
    • : a wooden or metal viselike device for preventing a tennis or other racket from warping when not in use.
    • : a pressing or pushing forward.
    • : a crowding, thronging, or pressing together; collective force: The press of the crowd drove them on.
    • : a crowd, throng, or multitude.
    • : the desired smooth or creased effect caused by ironing or pressing: His suit was out of press.
    • : pressure or urgency, as of affairs or business.
    • : an upright case or other piece of furniture for holding clothes, books, pamphlets, etc.
    • : Basketball. an aggressive form of defense in which players guard opponents very closely.
    • : Weightlifting. a lift in which the barbell, after having been lifted from the ground up to chest level, is pushed to a position overhead with the arms extended straight up, without moving the legs or feet.

Phrases

  • pressed for time
  • press into service
  • press on
  • press one's luck
  • press the flesh
  • hard pressed
  • hot off the press
  • push (press) one's luck
  • push (press) someone's buttons

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Examples

  • Apple has removed the ability of the watch to sense deep presses on the screen, a feature it called 3D Touch on all previous models.

  • Still, a lightning storm of 11,000 lightning strikes struck the San Francisco Bay Area in mid-august and ignited over 367 new fires, says Cal Fire’s division chief Jeremy Rahn in a press release.

  • Navigating your phone and typingA long press on any app icon on the home screen on Android or iOS will reveal some useful time-saving shortcuts.

  • As of press time, here is a guide to some of the LGBTQ programs that are on the calendar.

  • At a press conference Friday, the Union-Tribune reports, Assemblyman Todd Gloria urged the city to investigate what happened and urged NBC 7 to be transparent about its own efforts to understand how it got duped.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

  • This time it would be the biggest mistake for the Western press to repeat that—absolutely the biggest mistake.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • And finally, this is who most of our political press is—gullible enough to be surprised by either of the first two.

  • If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.

  • "We will go to the Hotel de l'Europe, if you press it;" and away the cabriolet joggled over the roughly paved street.

  • He does well to be proud of his men and of the way they played up to-day when he called upon them to press back the enemy.

  • He was to pay one third of the amount before the book went to press, the balance he was to pay within a reasonable time.

  • Here, Mr. Slocum paused to wipe his spectacles, and the wife seized the opportunity to press the question.