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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Go, my boy," said Glenarvan, pressing Robert's hand.
-- cried the young girl, pressing her brother's hand.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A most practical, pressing matter, which must be decided within twenty-four hours.
-- 'And why were you so pressing that Sir Charles should destroy your letter?'
-- I ask you once again why it was that you were so pressing that Sir Charles should de-stroy this letter which he received on the day of his death.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, when this terrible feeling came over him, the priest quickly pressed the cross to his lips, without a word a little silver cross it wasand he kept on pressing it to the man's lips every second.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It followed that the question was rendered pressing when, where, and how Mr Sparkler should be married to the foremost girl in all this world with no nonsense about her.
-- 'Then my humble and pressing entreaty is the more,' said Flora, 'that in travelling back you will have the kindness to look for this foreign gentleman along all the roads and up and down all the turnings and to make inquiries for him at all the hotels and orange-trees and vineyards and volcanoes and places for he must be somewhere and why doesn't he come forward and say he's there and clear all parties up?'
-- 'If you will allow me,' said Clennam, 'I will tell you my reason for pressing the subject.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pressing his foot upon it, till the rope hummed like a harp-string, then eagerly bending over it, and seeing no strandings, Ahab exclaimed, "Good!and now for the seizings."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I should like to tell him,' said the child pressing his small hands together, and speaking with great fervour, 'that I was glad to die when I was very young; for, perhaps, if I had lived to be a man, and had grown old, my little sister who is in Heaven, might forget me, or be unlike me; and it would be so much happier if we were both children there together.'
-- He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed; but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner, when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a boisterous cry from the foot passengers, who saw his danger: drove him back upon the pavement.
-- inquired the beadle, affectionately pressing her hand.
-- And pressing her son's hand, affectionately, she hastened from the room.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her, that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise to an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.
-- Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of Mr. Phillip's house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties that they should come in, and even in spite of Mrs. Phillips's throwing up the parlour window and loudly seconding the invitation.
-- Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.
-- It amused her to observe that all her friends seemed determined to send her to Delaford; a place, in which, of all others, she would now least chuse to visit, or wish to reside; for not only was it considered as her future home by her brother and Mrs. Jennings, but even Lucy, when they parted, gave her a pressing invitation to visit her there.
-- The horses arrived, even before they were expected, and Colonel Brandon only pressing her hand with a look of solemnity, and a few words spoken too low to reach her ear, hurried into the carriage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, pressing his lips to her own.
-- Hurstwood saw that she was not to be possessed for the asking, and deferred pressing his suit too warmly.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They took Boggs to a little drug store, the crowd pressing around just the same, and the whole town following, and I rushed and got a good place at the window, where I was close to him and could see in.
-- Then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says the great tragedy will be per- formed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing London engage-ments, where the seats is all sold already for it in Drury Lane; and then he makes them another bow, and says if he has succeeded in pleasing them and instructing them, he will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends and get them to come and see it.
扩展阅读：