compress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 压缩; 使语言精炼; n. (止血用) 敷布，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you, you could not compress him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was gratified, and would soon have shewn no want of words, if the sound of Mrs. Elton's voice from the sitting-room had not checked her, and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensa-tions into a very, very earnest shake of the hand.
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