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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gentle pressure on my hand.
-- A stronger pressure on my hand.
-- There was something in the action, and in the light pressure of Biddy's wedding-ring, that had a very pretty eloquence in it.
-- The moon began to rise, and I thought of the pressure on my hand when I had spoken the last words he had heard on earth.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.
-- In the mean time 103I was not able to forbear groaning and shedding tears, and turning my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I consider your character; when I consider that what has been known to me for hours, has been concealed by you for years; when I consider under what immediate pressure it has been forced from you at last; I come to the conclusion that I cannot but mistrust myself.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A manometer worked by compressed air, an instrument used to ascertain the upper atmospheric pressure on the level of the ocean.
-- Perhaps a common barometer would not have done as well, the atmospheric pressure being likely to increase in proportion as we descended below the surface of the earth.
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
-- "You perceive," said the Professor, "we have as yet only to endure the pressure of air.
-- "But," said I, "is it not very much to be feared that this ever-increasing pressure may not in the end turn out very painful and inconvenient?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she heard the pressure of circumstances in his voice.
-- It is the overwhelming pressure of environment.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clennam accepted the boon with a look of gratitude, and held it in his hand under the pressure of a little embarrassment, which was not relieved when Mr F.'s Aunt, elevating her voice into a cry of considerable power, exclaimed, 'He has a proud stomach, this chap!He's too proud a chap to eat it!'
-- Arthur Clennam had made his unavailing expedition to Calais in the midst of a great pressure of business.
-- Pressure was so entirely satisfactory to the public mind, and seemed to make everybody so comfortable, that it might have lasted all day but for Bar's having taken the real state of the case into Court at half-past nine.
-- Pressure came on, and you were done for!This consideration was very potent in many quarters, but nowhere more so than among the young clerks and partners who had never been in the slightest danger of overdoing it.
-- But, at about the time of High 'Change, Pressure began to wane, and appalling whispers to circulate, east, west, north, and south.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Meg had wanted a reward for hours of patient labor, she received it in the hearty pressure of her father's hand and the approving smile he gave her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
-- Because, owing to the enormous surface of him in a full grown sperm whale something less than 2000 square feet the pressure of the water is immense.
-- Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
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