喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture pressing: a weight coming down and pushing hard on something. Sometimes the thing under the weight gives up what is inside it, like oil out of olives. Sometimes it changes shape and keeps it, like a disc or a shirt. And sometimes the thing being pushed on is you: a problem sits on your day with its whole weight, so you deal with it first. Even on a football pitch, a team that is pressing is pushing forward on whoever has the ball.

pressing 可以想成一個往下壓的重量。有時候被壓的東西會吐出裡面的東西，像橄欖被壓出油。有時候它被壓成一個形狀…更多收起pressing 可以想成一個往下壓的重量。有時候被壓的東西會吐出裡面的東西，像橄欖被壓出油。有時候它被壓成一個形狀就固定下來，像唱片或燙平的襯衫。有時候被壓的是你自己：一件事整個壓在你的行程上，你只好先處理它，所以英文叫它 pressing。連球場上也一樣，整隊往前壓向拿球的人，那套踢法就叫 pressing。

Three branches

壓製：動作與成品

這一組最貼近那個往下壓的畫面：先是壓這個動作，接著是壓出來的東西。英文很多 -ing 名詞都這樣從動作滑到成果。

noun · B2

The act of pushing hard on something, squeezing it, or flattening it — for example squeezing oil out of olives, juice out of fruit, or smoothing a shirt with a hot iron.

壓製；榨取；燙平

壓在心上：迫切

把壓力從物體移到人身上。被壓的不是橄欖或鐵板，而是你的時間與注意力，所以這件事必須先做。

adjective · B2

Needing to be talked about or dealt with very soon, because leaving it alone would make things worse.

迫切的

球場上的往前逼壓

同樣是「往前壓」，但壓的對象是拿球的對手，而且是整隊一起做，所以自成一支球場用語。

noun · C1

In football, a way of defending in which players run forward at whoever has the ball and try to win it back high up the field, instead of waiting near their own goal.

逼搶；高位壓迫（足球）

原始詞典資料11 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。

pressingadj/ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/

  • 1

    Needing urgent attention.

    • “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
    • And now the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become pressing.
  • 2

    Insistent, earnest, or persistent.

    • You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
    • He was pressing and persuasive.

pressingnoun/ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/

  • 1

    The application of pressure by a press or other means.

  • 2

    A metal or plastic part made with a press.

  • 3

    The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.

  • 4

    A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.

  • 5

    The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.

  • 6

    A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.

  • 7

    Urgent insistence.

  • 8

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA tactic of defending players moving forward towards the ball, rather than remaining in position near their goal.

    • His version of pressing—dynamic and aggressive—is now the pre-eminent tactical mode, prompting evolution even in Pep Guardiola, whose press-and-possess football at Barcelona had laid the groundwork for this development.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。