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pressure

英 ['preʃə] 美['prɛʃɚ]

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n. 压力；压迫，[物] 压强
vt. 迫使；密封；使……增压

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They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They are under growing pressure to balance their national budgets.

Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.

Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with, often because they are pressured by their administrators, treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.

The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt.

The advantages, not surprisingly, were greater for African Americans, who are more likely to develop high blood pressure than other ethnic groups, and for the elderly, since blood vessels stiffen with age, which can lead to higher blood pressure.

They also calculated the cost savings emerging from the amount of disease that would be avoided because of lower blood pressure

Many societies throughout history and around the world today have cultivated strong pressures to stay married.

In the absence of societal pressures to maintain pair-bonds, O'Sullivan suggests that romantic love has increasingly come to be seen as the factor that should determine who we stay with and for how long

If you believe that you have found true romance, and your culture tells you that this is what a long-term relationship should be based on, there is less need to rely on social or family pressures to keep couples together, O'Sullivan argues.

Without social pressures to keep pair-bonds, romantic love plays a key role in maintaining long-term relationships

marriages are hard to sustain without social or family pressures

romantic love tends to yield where family or social pressures are strong

One who has integrity is bound by and follows moral and ethical (道德上的) standards even when making life's hard choices, choices which may be clouded by stress, pressure to succeed, or temptation.

Risky Business We are each responsible for our own decisions, even if the decision, making process has been undermined by stress or peer pressure

Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity (阳刚), the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop without pressure to conform to a stereotype.

It places more pressure on boys than on girls

What's less clear is whether divorce and separation rates rise in a recession - financial pressures mean couples argue more but make splitting up less affordable.

Even if there is no curve, cheating "poisons" the classroom, and others may feel pressured to join in.

But there is also pressure to buy local and save on food miles, which means we take our vegetables from the local markets, and there are a lot that work well with British staples.

Researchers believe this may be caused by social pressure

People need time away from the pressures of study or work to relax and enjoy time with friends and family.

A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain individuals.

According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of deaths from heart disease and stroke are caused by high blood pressure, tobacco use, elevated cholesterol and low consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Although the pressure of the cabin is adjusted to prevent altitude sickness, you could still experience sleepiness or a headache.

And of course, if it has an impact on obesity, it will have an impact on diabetes, and heart disease, and high blood pressure.

At the same time, high blood pressure has become an increasing problem.

Blood pressure and heart rate are typically at their lowest levels during sleep.

But it's also important to recognize that the pressure to divorce may be health-related and that sick ex-wives may need additional care and services to prevent worsening health and increased health costs.

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.

In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.

It's a great way for me to relieve stress and pressure, and dance my way towards feeling energetic and happy again.

Once you get beyond the initial learning curve, knitting and crocheting can lower heart rate and blood pressure.

People who sleep less tend to have higher blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes, weight gain and other problems.

PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic.

The Italian Culture ministry says it is unaware of any government efforts to pressure UNESCO.

The lower oxygen pressure found in an aircraft cabin is equivalent to that at 6, 000-8, 000 feet of altitude.

There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications like antidepressants.

There's no question people can take things a long way toward reversing diabetes, reversing high blood pressure, even preventing cancer by food choices.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more "inclusive" is a guarantee of dysfunction.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

Workplace norms pressure employees to overwork, deterring them from taking paid time off.

Without sustained external pressure it seems certain Mr.

Pressure from tobacco manufacturers remains strong.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

And even before then, scholars warn, the demand for resources in an energy-hungry world could raise pressure to renegotiate Antarctica's treaties, possibly allowing more commercial endeavours here well before the prohibitions against them expire.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

Rising population combined with improved nutrition standards and shifting dietary preferences will exert pressure for increases in global food supply.

However, pressure will grow on finite resources of land, energy and water

At certain stages of life, especially adolescence, the pressure to be seen as similar to peers is immense.

According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

But it's not only women who are affected by this pressure to look good.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always "on,"they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

If there's a downward pressure on costs, because of a need for investment in other areas, I would argue that this is a perfectly feasible solution.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring possibly painfullysome of his kinetic energy to your own body, or toucan approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

The gas can be stored under pressure in a tank.

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

This unique ecosystem may soon be under pressure.

We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.

When considering risk factors associated with serious chronic diseases, we often think about health indicators such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and body weight.

without sustained external pressure it seems certain Mr. Cameron would still be hooked on the interests of big tobacco companies

Big companies could relieve data security pressure.

But what starts as fun usage of apps turns into tremendous pressure in real social media interaction at secondary school.

By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots.

Finally, dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam.

Governments could relieve their financial pressure.

If you have a tension headache, you may also feel the pressure on both sides of your head.

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

It turns out that just looking at green,growing things can reduce stress,lower blood pressure,and put people into a better mood.

Many of our conversations are gossip, I have noticed three effects of gossip: It can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

The pressure built and the vegetables cooked.

The pressures of "time" and "destination" are further blocks to awareness.

The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day—especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.

This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

But by giving in to critics now they are inviting pressure to make more concessions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 word.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 position—no matter how much "soft pressure" is put upon them.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress一insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protect

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

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 li

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

hill's pressure later led to creation of national parks and green belts.

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

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.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes its reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

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.

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