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

• 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。
• 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。
• So saying, he left the bear to stand there and growl, lay down in the corner on a pile of straw and went to sleep.
  说完，他丢下熊在那儿嚎嚎大叫，自己躺倒角落的稻草堆上睡觉了。
• His tentative suggestion of a transaction tax, which he argued would bear down on profits and limit socially unacceptable bonuses, is another curious line of reasoning.
  特纳试探性地建议征收交易税，称这将削减利润并限制社会难以接受的奖金水平，这又是一种古怪的推理方式。
• Bear down on a task
  加紧努力以完成一项工作
• His lecture is intended to bear down on the application of acupuncture anesthesia in brain surgery.
  他的学术报告打算重点谈针刺麻醉在脑外科方面的应用。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。