- 1施壓、給人壓力
To pressurize someone is to push them towards doing something by making them feel it is their duty — it would look bad, or , if they said no. Parents pressurize children about exams; a company may pressurize staff to stay late. In British English this is a normal verb for that social push. Though actually, in American English pressurize is mostly kept for air and machines (a plane cabin is pressurized), and people say pressure for the human meaning: they pressured me to sign. Britain also pressurise. The heart of this sense is not a gun to the head; it is the heavy feeling that you cannot decently refuse.
組成From pressure + -ize.
同家族的字
- pressurethe noun the verb is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
pressurizeverb/ˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/
- 1
To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.
- 2
rareTo coerce, put under duress; to pressure.
- These men were indignant concerning the press coverage of the case and were careful to point out that Osborne did not pressurize them into sex or invade their privacy in any way.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。