| 单词 | pressure button |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspressure button pressure button n. (a) = press-button n. 1; (b) figurative a factor or trigger which brings psychological, political, or social pressure to bear (cf. pressure point n. 2). ΚΠ 1893 Star 19 May 1/8 The new electric bells..the substitution of pressure buttons for the existing lever pulls. 1960 Washington Post 22 May g13/3 Writing wasn't done under pressure. You'd sculpture things. You had time. But mass communication has touched the pressure button. 1990 DEC User (Nexis) Apr. 65 You set it to the requirements of the host computer using pressure buttons and a small LCD display panel on the front of the box. 2005 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 10 Nov. h1 We would play on Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. to get (all 16 teams) to New York. Obviously, that didn't make much sense. But clearly, it's another pressure button that everybody has to handle. < as lemmas |
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