compress词典解释

1. 打包机
2. 【医】（湿）敷布，压布，止血敷布
3. 罨，敷
4. 混敷料
5. 外敷法

1. 精简，归纳，浓缩，概括，使变简练
2. （经受）压缩，压紧，压
3. 压迫，压榨
4. 压送
5. 闭紧，紧闭
6. 咬紧

1. vt. 压紧; 压缩,浓缩; 缩短 force (a substance) into less space; press together

1.(使)压紧;(使)压缩
When youcompress something or when itcompresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.

e.g. Poor posture, sitting or walking slouched over, compresses the body's organs...
坐着或者走路的时候低头垂肩，这种不正确的姿势会压迫体内的器官。
e.g. Air willcompress but the brake fluid won't.
空气会压缩，但是刹车油不会。

2.使简练;缩短
If youcompress something such as a piece of writing or a description, you make it shorter.

compress是什么意思

e.g. He never understood how to organize orcompress large masses of material...
他从来就不懂如何对大篇的材料进行整理或精简。
e.g. All those three books are compacted and compressed into one book.
那三本书的内容全都压缩进一本书了。

3.压缩，缩短(时间)
If an eventis compressed into a short space of time, it is given less time to happen than normal or previously.

compress

e.g. The four debates will be compressed into an unprecedentedly short eight-day period...
这4场辩论将被压缩到短短8天的时间，这是前所未有的。
e.g. Some courses such as engineering had to be compressed.
有些课程，比如工程学，必须减少课时。

4.(用以退烧的)敷布，压布
Acompress is a pad of wet or dry cloth pressed on part of a patient's body to reduce fever.

e.g. Sore throats may be relieved by cold compresses.
喉咙痛用冷敷布敷一下可能会好一些。

compress into (v.+prep.)

将…压缩成… make (sth) take up less space
compress sth into sth

He compressed cotton into bales.

他将棉花压紧打成棉花包。

He compressed his report into three pages.

他把他的报告压缩到三页的长度。

The poet compressed many thoughts and emotions into a few well-chosen words.

诗人将丰富的思想感情浓缩于几个精选的词语里。

• Bickerings at Westminster could be compressed..into a few columns of the big daily newspapers.

  出自：R. C. Hutchinson

• As if he had compressed a whole week's emotional energy into that one burst of anger.

  出自：M. Frayn

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的compresser，意为压在一起。