bear down on

英 [beə(r) daʊn ɒn]

美 [ber daʊn ɑːn]

压在…上; 施加压力; 加紧努力以完成

英英释义

verb

• exert a force with a heavy weight
  1. The snow bore down on the roof
  Synonym:drag downbear downpress down onweigh down
• sail towards another vessel, of a ship
  Synonym:bear down upon

双语例句

• Things just bear down on us, I suppose.
  我想，事情只是，刚好发生在我们身上。
• But to bear down on global climate change, there would need to be taxes on imports too, making western consumers pay for the carbon used to make the cars, electronics and clothes they consume from abroad.
  但要有效应对全球气候变化，各国还需对进口征税，让西方消费者在消费来自国外的汽车、电子产品和服装时，也要为生产这些商品造成的碳排放埋单。
• To bear down on energy usage would require a different approach.
  抑制能源使用将需要采取一种不同的方式。
• So rapid has been the accumulation of inventory, it will be "another factor likely to bear down on near-term activity".
  存货的囤积速度非常之快，以至于将成为“可能压制近期经济活动的另一个因素”。
• If all the consequences areto be bear down upon the victims themselves, not let it be have double torture on the victims& "the old injury did not heal a fresh injury".
  如果将所有后果都得由受害者自己承担，岂不是让其受到双重折磨&旧伤未愈又添新伤。
• They would be shouting here again, the roar of children's roller skates would bear down on him from behind.
  他们又会在这里大声呼喊起来，小孩溜旱冰的轰鸣声又会从背后向他铺天盖地袭来。
• He's gonna bear down on me and soft-soap you.
  他要打压我，再哄骗你。
• The pen doesn't write unless you bear down hard on it.
  如果你不用力，这只笔就写不出来。
• You have to bear down on the screw quite hard to get it to turn.
  你要用力将螺丝往下压，才能转动它。
• The polar bear is so grief-stricken at the loss of her cub that she lies down on the ice to die.
  北极熊在失去小熊后受到了太大的打击，甚至想躺在冰上死去。