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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only thing to be done was to wait patiently and press forward with all the speed in their power.
-- No one replied, though Lady Helena's questioning glances at her companions seemed to press for an answer.
-- "All right," said Ayrton, and forbore to press the matter further.
-- Fortunately, Will Halley was not a man in a hurry, and did not use a press of canvas, or his masts would inevitably have come down.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmer-ing head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as your purse is quite empty at the present moment, you must allow me to press these twenty-five roubles upon your acceptance, as something to begin with.
-- At Moscow lately a father was heard urging his son to stop at nothing at nothing, mind you! to get money!The press seized upon the story, of course, and now it is public property.
-- 'She spoke of some bills of Evgenie Pavlovitch's,' said the prince, simply, 'which Rogojin had bought up from some-one; and implied that Rogojin would not press him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I--I would rather not press the case.'
-- 'You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way?'
-- 'Do not press me to reply,' answered Rose.
-- 'Not to press me to alter my right determination,' replied Rose, with a melancholy smile; 'it will be useless.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend to join it.
-- She had once or twice suggested to Elizabeth the pos-sibility of his being partial to her, but Elizabeth always laughed at the idea; and Mrs. Collins did not think it right to press the subject, from the danger of raising expectations which might only end in disappointment; for in her opinion it admitted not of a doubt, that all her friend's dislike would vanish, if she could suppose him to be in her power.
-- Mrs. Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from press-ing her; but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home.
-- I am not so selfish, however, as to press for it, if in-convenient.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- a thou-sand times; and my desires were so moved by it, that when I spoke the words my hands would clinch together, and my fingers would press the palms of my hands, so that if I had had any soft thing in my hand I should have crushed it in-voluntarily; and the teeth in my head would strike together, and set against one another so strong, that for some time I could not part them again.
-- But that did not altogether press me so much as the possibility that there might be yet some living creature on board, whose life I might not only save, but might, by saving that life, comfort my own to the last degree; and this thought clung so to my heart that I could not be quiet night or day, but I must ven-ture out in my boat on board this wreck; and committing the rest to God's providence, I thought the impression was so strong upon my mind that it could not be resisted - that it must come from some invisible direction, and that I should be wanting to myself if I did not go.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have only to add, my dear Willoughby, that at Barton cottage you will always be welcome; for I will not press you to return here immediately, because you only can judge how far THAT might be pleasing to Mrs. Smith; and on this head I shall be no more disposed to question your judgment than to doubt your inclination."
-- Lady Middleton too, though she did not press their mother, pressed them.
-- These difficulties, indeed, with a heart so alienated from Lucy, might not press very hard upon his patience; but melancholy was the state of the person by whom the expectation of family opposition and unkindness, could be felt as a relief!
-- Elinor, distressed by this charge of reserve in herself, which she was not at liberty to do away, knew not how, under such circumstances, to press for greater openness in Marianne.
-- Elinor, for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's; since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Resorting to those peculiar charities, several of which, in the press of hungry search, he accidentally stumbled upon, did the rest.
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