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pressure-treated

/presh-er-tree-tid/US // ˈprɛʃ ərˌtri tɪd //

压力处理过的,经压力处理过的,经压力处理的,经过压力处理的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : treated with a chemical or chemicals applied under pressure to reduce such problems as insect infestation, decay, and rotting.

Examples

  • A couple of people were treated for minor injuries but no major incidents occurred.

  • Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?

  • It was original in how it treated Nixon and his connection to the right before 1968.

  • Those who served abroad were treated with suspicion that they had been infected by European diplomacy.

  • How is this at all compatible with how your parents treated you?

  • He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

  • Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

  • With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

  • Mr. Brown seizes the proffered member, and gives it as hearty a pressure as the publicity of the occasion will permit.

  • This may be done by taking the humming tone and bringing to bear upon it a strong pressure of energy.