pressure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 压， 压力， 压迫， 强制， 紧迫， 困苦， 困难，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：
-- He, yielding under the pressure of a complicated something, long dread-ed and long vaguely foreseen and contended against, and recovering after the cloud had burst and passed, I should hope that the worst was over.'
-- Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of busi-ness imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic remembrance until three days ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen Evremonde, called Darnay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You wouldn't believe how I've missed..." And with a long pressure of her hand and a meaning smile, he put her in her carriage.
-- This man lifted his straw hat, showed his scanty curly hair and high forehead, painfully reddened by the pressure of the hat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, he began to rebuild the fire in the furnace; the pressure again mounted, and the locomotive returned, running backwards to Fort Kearney.
-- The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin saw that, unless he struggled, not only would he harden into timid morality under the pressure of the village, but be fixed in a routine of prescriptions and bandaging.
-- He learned the involved mysteries of freezing-point determinations, osmotic pressure determinations, and tried to apply Northrop's generalizations on enzymes to the study of phage.
-- His absorption in osmotic pressure determinations did not content him when he sat in his pr im hotel room and was reduced from Dr. Arrowsmith to a man who had no one to talk to.
-- But Martin was at once a scholar who made osmotic pressure determinations almost interesting, a taut swift man whom she could fancy running or making love, and a lonely youngster who naively believed that here in her soft security she was still the girl who had sat with him by the lagoon, still the courageous woman who had come to him in a drunken room at Blackwater.
-- He believed that he was learning to take life easily and beautifully; he criticized Terry Wickett (but only to himself) for provincialism; and so in a golden leisure they came back to America and prohibition and politicians charging to protect the Steel Trust from the communists, to conversation about bridge and motors and to osmotic pressure determinations.
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：
-- 'And I don't say this as I did yesterday ' he said, addressing Razumihin, with a friendly pressure of his hand.
-- I flattered her shamelessly, and as soon as I succeeded in get-ting a pressure of the hand, even a glance from her, I would reproach myself for having snatched it by force, and would declare that she had resisted, so that I could never have gained anything but for my being so unprincipled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took me inboth her arms, and squeezed me to her stays until the pressure onmy nose was extremely painful, though I never thought of that tillafterwards when I found it very tender.
-- At first I saw nobody; but feeling a pressure against the door, Ilooked round it, and there, to my amazement, were Mr. Peggottyand Ham, ducking at me with their hats, and squeezing oneanother against the wall.
-- 'I have no scruple in saying, in the presence of our friendshere, that I am a man who has, for some years, contended againstthe pressure of pecuniary difficulties.'
-- 'Oh dear, yes, Master Copperfield,' he proceeded, in a soft voice,most remarkably contrasting with the action of his thumb, whichdid not diminish its hard pressure in the least degree, 'there's nodoubt of it.
-- He gave us to understand that in ourchildren we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniarydifficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma returned her friend's pressure with interest; and was pleased enough to exclaim, 'You are not vain, Mr. Knightley.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rusty patch immediately upon the verse, caused by previous pressure of an iron substance thereon, told that this was not the first time the old volume had been used for the purpose.
-- So they all entered, and the cloth of the tent, to the eyes of an observer on the outside, became bulged into innumerable pimples such as we observe on a sack of potatoes, caused by the various human heads, backs, and elbows at high pressure within.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The sooner the better," she said, hoping that perhaps he would release the crushing pressure on her rings beforeshe had to ask him to do it.
-- "Gawdlmighty, Miss Scarlett " But under the determined pressure of her mistress' hand she started down the steps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only were my arms pulled close to my sides, but the pressure on my bad arm caused me exquisite pain.
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