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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Good-bye,' said Rogojin, pressing it hard, but quite me-chanically.
-- The whole of the journey, which occupied nearly an hour, he continued in this strain, putting questions and answer-ing them himself, shrugging his shoulders, pressing the prince's hand, and assuring the latter that, at all events, he had no suspicion whatever of HIM.
-- said Lebedeff, solemnly, pressing his hat to the region of his heart.
-- 'I have long sought the honour and opportunity of meet-ing you much-esteemed Lef Nicolaievitch,' he murmured, pressing the prince's hand very hard, almost painfully so; 'long very long.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hector, and they that were in front, then gave round while the Argives raised a shout and drew off the dead, pressing further forward as they did so.
-- Are the Achaeans, woe betide them, pressing you hard about the city that you have thought fit to come and uplift your hands to Jove from the citadel?
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'these young war-riors are pressing you hard, your force is spent, and age is heavy upon you, your squire is naught, and your horses are slow to move.
-- The battle was now in array and they stood face to face with one another, Agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others.
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; 'desert me not, for God's sake!remain to defend those I escort, and freely name your own reward!'
-- 'I may have been rash in pressing his consent in a mo-ment of much embarrassment, but I would have proved to him, that however others might neglect him in his strait his children at least were faithful.'
-- said David, pressing his hand confusedly on his brow.
-- But his hands were bound; and at the first movement he made, he felt the grasp of the power-ful Indian who directed the band, pressing his shoulder like a vise.
-- The naked body of his antagonist afforded Heyward no means of holding his adversary, who glided from his grasp, and rose again with one knee on his chest, pressing him down with the weight of a giant.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hospitable attentions were brief, but expressive, being confined to a shake of the hand, a slap on the shoulder, a loud laugh, and a pressing invita-tion to 'fall to, and help themselves.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the reporter, pressing the sailor's hand.
-- They must provide for their most pressing wants, settle their dwelling, and lay in a store of food; thus the cold might come upon them before the question of clothes had been settled.
-- The colonists, not having any pressing work out of doors, profited by the bad weather to work at the interior of Granite House, the arrangement of which was becoming more complete from day to day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the grandfather, pressing her closer to him and glancing towards me.
-- It needed no great pressing to induce me to stay, for if my curiosity has been excited on the occasion of my first visit, it certainly was not diminished now.
-- The two pilgrims, often pressing each other's hands, or exchanging a smile or cheerful look, pursued their way in silence.
-- 'But they look smaller than they really are, on that account,' said Quilp, pressing his arm.
-- After a moment's hesitation, the young man stretched out his to meet it; Quilp clutched his fingers in a grip that for the moment stopped the current of the blood within them, and pressing his other hand upon his lip and frowning towards the unsuspicious Richard, released them and sat down.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost bursting into laughter, Katiousha quickly changed places with Nekhludoff, and pressing with her strong, rough little hand his large hand she ran to the left, rustling her starched skirt.
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