pressure简单

alleviates parenting pressure.

减轻了育儿压力。

bring operational pressure.

带来运营压力。

It has been estimated that this generation, due to the pressures of technology, the wish for personal fulfillment and desire for diversity will work for 17 different employers over the course of their working life and have five different careers.

据估计，由于技术带来的压力、对个人成就感的追求以及对多样性的渴望，这一代人在其职业生涯中将为17个不同的雇主工作，并从事5种不同的职业。

To pressure zoos to spend less on their animals would lead to inhumane outcomes for the precious creatures in their care.

迫使动物园减少在动物身上的开支，将给它们所照料的珍贵动物带来不人道的后果。

And stay alert to serious symptoms, such as chest pain or pressure, severe shortness of breath or dizziness, or faintness, and seek medical attention immediately.

还要警惕严重的症状，比如胸痛或胸闷、严重气短或头晕、或昏厥，一旦出现应立即就医。

brought little financial pressure.

几乎没有带来财务压力。

the pressure on women in global corporations.

全球企业中女性面临的压力。

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer — Congress — insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

而从邮政工会到贺卡制造商等各种利益集团，都出于自身利益向美国邮政署的最终监管者——国会——施压，坚持认为无论邮政署发生什么其他变化，他们所依赖的现状的各个方面都必须得到保护。

Merely helping a gift-giver gain access to other officials, unless done with clear intent to pressure those officials, is not corruption, the justices found.

大法官们认定，仅仅帮助送礼者接触其他官员并不构成腐败，除非这样做带有向这些官员施压的明确意图。

Complex international, economic, technological and cultural changes could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the breadth of English usage would consequently face new pressures.

复杂的国际、经济、技术和文化变化可能会开始削弱英语作为世界市场语言的主导地位，而那些得益于英语广泛使用的英国利益群体也将因此面临新的压力。

Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.

如今，要求立即上大学的普遍社会压力，再加上在这个快速变化的世界里日益提高的期望，常常使学生完全忽略了间隔年的可能性。

relieve freshmen of pressures.

减轻新生的压力。

For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers — and upward pressure on wages.

对工厂主来说，这一切意味着对工人的激烈争夺——以及工资上涨的压力。

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

在丹麦、美国和其他一些国家，时尚业正努力为模特和时尚形象制定自愿性标准，这些标准更多依靠同行压力来执行。

Models are no longer under peer pressure.

模特不再承受同行压力。

Hill’s pressure later led to the creation of national parks and green belts.

希尔施加的压力后来促成了国家公园和绿化带的设立。

Under lobby pressure, George Osborne favours rural new-build against urban renovation and renewal.

在游说压力下，乔治·奥斯本偏向在农村新建房屋，而不是城市翻新与改造。

highlights his firm stand against lobby pressure.

突显了他反对游说压力的坚定立场。

the pressure from its investors.

来自投资者的压力。

was a give-in to governmental pressure.

是对政府压力的让步。

“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”

加里·埃伯利在他的《神圣时间》一书中写道：“未来像一个个空瓶子沿着一条无法停止、几乎无限长的传送带向我们涌来”，并且“我们感到一种压力，要在这些大小不一的瓶子（日、时、分）经过时将其装满，因为如果它们未被装满就溜走了，我们就浪费了它们。”

The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to ____

“空瓶子”的比喻说明人们感到一种压力，要____

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

行业内部存在要求变革的压力，但监管者中反对变革的人坚持认为，将外人挡在律所之外，能使律师免受只顾赚钱、而不合乎职业道德地为客户服务的压力。

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

行业内部存在要求变革的压力，但监管者中反对变革的人坚持认为，将外人挡在律所之外，能使律师免受只顾赚钱、而不合乎职业道德地为客户服务的压力。

the increasing pressure of inflation.

日益加大的通胀压力。

the alleviation of job pressure.

工作压力的缓解。

After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions — no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.

毕竟，四十年来的证据已经表明，无论对欧洲和美国的公司施加多大的“软压力”，它们都在回避按照能力录用女性并将其提拔到高层职位。

greater “soft pressure”.

更大的“软压力”。

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

这句低声耳语半是邀请、半是强迫，是我们大多数人听到“同伴压力”一词时首先想到的。

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.

但蒂娜·罗森伯格在她的新书《加入俱乐部》中主张，同伴压力也可以通过她所说的“社会疗法”成为一种积极力量：机构和官员借助群体动力的力量，帮助个人改善生活，甚至可能改善世界。

Her critique of the lameness of many public-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

她对许多公共卫生运动乏力无效的批评切中要害：这些运动未能调动同伴压力来培养健康习惯，而且表现出对心理学严重错误的理解。

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

罗森伯格令人信服地指出，公共卫生倡导者应当向善于运用同伴压力的广告商学习。

Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful.

《加入俱乐部》充斥着太多无关的细节，而对使同伴压力如此强大的社会和生物因素探讨不足。

This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.

这是一种微妙的同伴压力：我们会不自觉地模仿每天看到的行为。

According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as ____

根据第一段，同伴压力常常表现为____

The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is ____

作者在最后一段暗示，同伴压力的效果是____

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.

随着董事会迫于股东压力而仔细审查继任计划，那些未获认可的高管也可能希望另谋高就。

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

例如，社交网络的成员正逐渐认识到，他们可以劫持媒体，向最初创建这些媒体的企业施压。