press是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 压； 压榨； 紧迫， 催促n. 报刊， 通讯社； 压榨机，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doctor Manette sat meditating after these earnest words were spoken, and Mr. Lorry did not press him.
-- 'Will you promise not to press one question on me, if I beg you not to ask it?'
-- 'For the sake of her child and her father, press upon her the necessity of leaving Paris, with them and you, at that hour.
-- They leisurely walk round the carriage and leisurely mount the box, to look at what little luggage it carries on the roof; the country-people hanging about, press nearer to the coach doors and greedily stare in; a little child, carried by its mother, has its short arm held out for it, that it may touch the wife of an aristocrat who has gone to the Guillotine.
-- It would seem to be al-ways the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know why you press me to come to the ball.
-- Anna did not mean to stay to supper, but the master of the house began to press her to do so.
-- Suppose I am taught," he went on musing, "to shoot; I press the trigger," he said to himself, closing his eyes, "and it turns out I have killed him," Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself, and he shook his head as though to dispel such silly ideas.
-- A poor thrashing machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam press they don't break.
-- This article was followed by a deadly silence about the book both in the press and in conversation, and Sergey Ivanovitch saw that his six years' task, toiled at with such love and labor, had gone, leaving no trace.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two powerful locomotives, carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the road, stopped at this point; cheers were given, the Sioux and Pawnees performed an imitation Indian battle, fireworks were let off, and the first number of the Railway Pioneer was printed by a press brought on the train.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once she came over to press Martin's hand.
-- Policemen tramped in front of the press of people, swinging their clubs, shouting, "Get back there, you!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, with what happiness I shall press you to my heart!Dounia is all excitement at the joyful thought of see-ing you, she said one day in joke that she would be ready to marry Pyotr Petrovitch for that alone.
-- So she is building all her hopes all the time on Mr. Luzhin's generosity; 'he will offer it of himself, he will press it on me.'
-- Then I'd roll the stone back so that it would look as before, would press it down with my foot and walk away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I laid down my pen,a moment since, to think of it, the air from the sea came blowing inagain, mixed with the perfume of the flowers; and I saw the old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt'sinviolable chair and table by the round green fan in thebowwindow, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder,the two canaries, the old china, the punch-bowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and,wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon thesofa, taking note of everything.
-- When all these tasks were performed toher satisfaction, she took off the gloves and apron, folded them up,put them in the particular corner of the press from which they hadbeen taken, brought out her work-box to her own table in the openwindow, and sat down, with the green fan between her and thelight, to work.
-- Did I press it in the least?
-- On these occasions Mr. Dick never travelled without a leatherwriting-desk, containing a supply of stationery and the Memorial;in relation to which document he had a notion that time wasbeginning to press now, and that it really must be got out of hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not in-tended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again for till she married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her mother or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter wrote in Mr. Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their country seat, Baly-craig, a beautiful place, I fancy.
-- There was no occasion to press the matter farther.
-- I shall press you no more.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
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