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

• The other thing to bear in mind is that we don't want to water down the mobile experience for visitors running very capable browsers, such as those found on the iPhone or Android platforms.
  另一个需要留意的事情是我们不想让运行着功能强大的浏览器（例如运行于iPhone或Android平台上的浏览器）的那些访客的移动体验大打折扣。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Bear down on a task
  加紧努力以完成一项工作
• The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.
  敌舰企图逼近我们的小汽艇。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。