pressing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 急迫的, 再三要求的, 恳切要求的 n. 同批的唱片, 模压制品，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet was soon back again, and the proposal almost 52 Emmaimmediately made; and she had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
-- They want her (Mr. and Mrs. Dixon) excessively to come over with Colonel and Mrs. Campbell; quite depend upon it; nothing can be more kind or pressing than their joint invitation, Jane says, as you will hear presently; Mr. Dixon does not seem in the least back-ward in any attention.
-- Frank Churchill, of whom, in the eagerness of her conversation with Mrs. Weston, she had been seeing nothing, except that he had found a seat by Miss Fairfax, followed Mr. Cole, to add his very pressing entreaties; and as, in every respect, it suited Emma best to lead, she gave a very proper compliance.
-- These are the motives which I have been pressing on you.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- He held out his hand to take hers, which, when she had eased her side by pressing it there, was prettily extended upon her bosom to still her loud-beating heart.
-- she cried out in affright, pressing her hand to her side.
-- In her distraction, instead of advancing further she walked up and down, beating the air with her fingers, pressing on her brow, and sobbing brokenly to herself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think as you do," she said, pressing the Vicomtesse's hand.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laughed until he choked, peering at herin the shadows as she sat, stricken dumb, pressing her handkerchief to her mouth.
-- She pushed the thoughtfirmly back into her mind and grappled with the more pressing emergency.
-- Then his arms went around her waist and shoulders and she felt the hard muscles of his thighs against her bodyand the buttons of his coat pressing into her breast A warm tide of feeling, bewildering, frightening, swept over her,carrying out of her mind the time and place and circumstances.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said I, pressing him, for I thought I saw him near a loophole here; "but would that be your opinion at Walworth?"
-- Chapter XLIt was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far as I could) the safety of my dreaded visitor; for, this thought pressing on me when I awoke, held other thoughts in a confused concourse at a distance.
-- If you had nothing more pressing to do than to keep here till dark, that's what I should advise.
-- As I could do no service there, and as I had, nearer home, that pressing reason for anxiety and fear which even her wanderings could not drive out of my mind, I decided, in the course of the night that I would return by the early morning coach, walking on a mile or so, and being taken up clear of the town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
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：
-- She was perfectly dim and dazed, looking down in a sort of amazement at the rather tender nape of his neck, feeling his face pressing her thighs.
-- And his white slim back was curved over a big bowl of soapy water, in which he ducked his head, shaking his head with a queer, quick little motion, lifting his slender white arms, and pressing the soapy water from his ears, quick, subtle as a weasel playing with water, and utterly alone.
-- Almost she could feel the skeleton clutching her and pressing her to its cage of ribs.
-- And as if a wind tossed him he got up and hobbled over to her, one shoe off and one shoe on, and took her in his arms, pressing her against his body, which some-how felt hurt right through.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was under a pressing and continual necessity of looking at that gentleman, which occasioned his eye-glass to get into his soup, into his wine-glass, into Mrs Meagles's plate, to hang down his back like a bell-rope, and be several times disgracefully restored to his bosom by one of the dingy men.
-- The mother, storm-belated many winters ago, still standing in the corner with her baby at her breast; the man who had frozen with his arm raised to his mouth in fear or hunger, still pressing it with his dry lips after years and years.
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