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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- Don't press me any more don't.
-- Press the spring and open the back."
-- "Don't press me too hard.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It 41was said, and we retired under the pretence of seeking re-pose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Eliza-beth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pork came down the wide dark steps toward them, hurrying to press close to Scarlett like a cold animal toward afire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
-- After breakfast, Joe brought out my indentures from the press in the best parlor, and we put them in the fire, and I felt that I was free.
-- I should have replied that Love was commonly reputed blind, but for the reason that I always was restrained--and this was not the least of my miseries--by a feeling that it was ungenerous to press myself upon her, when she knew that she could not choose but obey Miss Havisham.
-- As I saw that he was restrained by fealty to Little Britain from saying as much as he could, and as I knew with thankfulness to him how far out of his way he went to say what he did, I could not press him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being al-most a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
-- And the king, when he is highest provoked, and most determined to press a city to rubbish, orders the island to descend with great gentleness, out of a pretence of tenderness to his people, but, indeed, for fear of break-ing the adamantine bottom; in which case, it is the opinion of all their philosophers, that the loadstone could no longer hold it up, and the whole mass would fall to the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, a brief press and confusion near the stage, ended in the man himself standing at the orator's side before the concourse.
-- 'You will understand, Mr. Harthouse,' she returned, after some indecision: she had been more or less uncertain, and troubled throughout the conversation, and yet had in the main preserved her self-contained manner; 'you will understand that if I tell you what you press to know, it is not by way of complaint or regret.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What delight it was to press these delicious fruits to our lips, and to bite at grapes and pomegranates fresh from the vine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and forbore, in the magnanimity of his strength, to press his fallen brother further.
-- 'I press for no confidence now.
-- It is as much as to state not that I wish to press it or even recall it, for it is of no use now, and my only wish is to make the best of existing circumstances that from the first to the last I always objected to this match of yours, and at a very late period yielded a most unwilling consent to it.'
-- They would do best by themselves perhaps, after all, Clennam thought; therefore did not press his proposal.
-- The topic was so disagreeable to him, and so put his usual liveliness to the rout, that Mrs Plornish forbore to press him further: the rather as the tea had been drawing for some time on the hob.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all are here in perfect health, None gone from our small band: Again we see each well-known face, And press each friendly hand.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing his head lowly, with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility, he spake these words:"Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press upon me.
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