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

• 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。
• He's gonna bear down on me and soft-soap you.
  他要打压我，再哄骗你。
• 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。
• What has to be shown of any proposals to tax more heavily or otherwise bear down on the better-off is how the bottom 10th, or even the median citizen, would benefit.
  无论我们提出什么建议，是提高对富人征税额、还是以其它方式惩罚富人，都应该明确指出这么做如何能让最底层的10%民众、甚至是中间阶层市民收益。
• 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。
• As dark forces bear down on Hogworths the three vow to skip their final year at school in order to find the remaining Horcruxes and defeat Lord Voldermort once and for all.
  黑暗势力席卷魔法学校，三人决定最后一年辍学，去寻找剩下的魂器，打倒伏地魔。可惜，邓布利多糟了暗算。哎。悲剧开始了。
• Bear down on a task
  加紧努力以完成一项工作
• 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。
• The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.
  敌舰企图逼近我们的小汽艇。
• 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。