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You can picture a hand pushing firmly down on something and holding it there — your thumb on a button, your palm dough. From that single 'firm push against a surface' everything else in this word grows.
可以想成一隻手用力按在某個東西上、並且壓住不放——拇指按在按鈕上、手掌把麵團壓平。整個 press 都從這個「用力往…更多收起
可以想成一隻手用力按在某個東西上、並且壓住不放——拇指按在按鈕上、手掌把麵團壓平。整個 press 都從這個「用力往下/往某個面推，並壓住」的動作長出來：往機器裡壓、往人身上施壓、人群互相擠壓，都是同一隻「壓」的手。原始詞典資料30 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pressname
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A surname.
pressnoun詞源 1/pɹɛs/
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An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.
- a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.
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A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- a flower press
- a cheese press
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A crowd.
- And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
- The press in the square grew. Something would happen now.
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A printing machine.
- Stop the presses!
- That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
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The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- according to a member of the press
- This article appeared in the press.
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A publisher.
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An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- Put the cups in the press.
- Put the ironing in the linen press.
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hobbieslifestylesportsAn exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].
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gamblinggamesgolfAn additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- He can even the match with a press.
- The way a press works is, say you're two down after six holes; you can then start another bet (in effect another match) from the seventh hole, for the same amount, starting all square on the seventh tee.
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Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
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A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- I have misused the king's press.
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesIn personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
pressverb詞源 2/pɹɛs/
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To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
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To compress, squeeze.
- to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
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To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.
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To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- to press cloth with a clothes-iron
- to press a hat
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businessmanufacturingsewingTo flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
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To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- to press a crowd back
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hobbieslifestylesportsTo force weight away from the body by extending the arms or legs.
- Start with two weights on the floor. Grab one with your right hand, then curl or clean it to your shoulder, then press it overhead.
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obsoleteTo weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
- He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.
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To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
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To try to force (something upon someone).
- to press the Bible on an audience
- He press'd a letter upon me within this hour.
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To hasten, urge onward.
- to press a horse in a race
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To urge, beseech, entreat.
- God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.
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To lay stress upon.
- If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.
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To throng, crowd.
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obsoleteTo print.
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To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。