press/compress/squash/squeeze.导航词义：压

1. press:v. 压，按.指某个人或物体在某一表面上施压。

He pressed the gas pedal, but the car didn't move.

他踩下油门，但是汽车没有动。

Don't press your face against the dusty window!

窗子上都是灰，别把脸贴在上面！

Press shift to switch languages.

按下shift键切换语言。

2. compress:v. 压紧，压缩.指外部因素使某物体积变小。

This material compresses well and then expands rapidly.

这种材料便于压缩，张开时速度又快。

Snow falling on the mountainsides is compressed into ice.

山坡上的积雪被压成了冰。

3. squash:v. 压扁，压坏.指将某物压扁，常含压碎或压坏之意。

She won't wear a hat even in winter in case her hair is squashed down by it.

即使在冬天她也不会戴帽子，她怕头发被帽子压瘪了。

There were too many people on the bus and so the cake got a bit squashed.

公交车上人很多，所以蛋糕受了些挤压。

4. squeeze:v. 挤，压，挤出.指用手或手指用力捏紧某物，也指挤出液体。

Don't squeeze the trigger until you see the signal.

没看到信号之前不要扣动扳机。

She squeezed his hand and left.

她捏捏他的手，然后离开了。

Squeeze a bit of orange juice onto the meatballs.

往肉丸子上挤点橙子汁。

全部

1·This system uses powerful microchips to compress huge amounts of data onto a CD-ROM.

这一系统使用功能强大的微芯片来把大量数据压缩到CD-ROM上。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The bin can also compress the waste so it will take up less space.

垃圾桶还可以压缩垃圾，这样就会占用更少的空间。

3·The sheep, horses, goats and pigs brought by Europeans, however, have hard hooves, which compress the thin soil and cause erosion.

然而，欧洲人带来的绵羊、马、山羊和猪却有着坚硬的蹄子，这压紧了稀薄的土壤并导致了水土流失。

4·When you compress the diaphragm and ribs, full respiration cannot take place, and the blood flow is slowed to your brain and extremities.

当您压缩隔膜和肋骨时，充分的呼吸作用不能发生，并且血液流经您的大脑和四肢的速度会减慢。

5·He never understood how to organize or compress large masses of material.

他从来不懂如何组织或简缩大篇材料。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Logrotate, to compress or delete logs.

用来压缩或删除日志。

7·The Web server should compress the data

Web 服务器应该能够压缩数据

8·Compress and extract almost anything with 7zip.

用7zip压缩和解压几乎任何格式。

9·In Listing 7, you'll compress a file using bzip2.

在清单7中，您将使用bzip2压缩文件。

10·You can ask DB2 to compress your database backups.

您可以要求DB 2压缩数据库备份。

压缩

1·This system uses powerful microchips to compress huge amounts of data onto a CD-ROM.

这一系统使用功能强大的微芯片来把大量数据压缩到CD-ROM上。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The bin can also compress the waste so it will take up less space.

垃圾桶还可以压缩垃圾，这样就会占用更少的空间。

3·When you compress the diaphragm and ribs, full respiration cannot take place, and the blood flow is slowed to your brain and extremities.

当您压缩隔膜和肋骨时，充分的呼吸作用不能发生，并且血液流经您的大脑和四肢的速度会减慢。

4·When they pull data to load into the production environment, they simply pull data from both file systems, and compress, then pass on to their production cluster.

当拉出数据载入到生产环境中时，只需要从这两个文件系统拉出数据，压缩，然后传送到生产集群中。

5·When they are found, doctors pass a tube with a balloon into the narrowed area and inflate the balloon to compress plaque deposits against the side of the artery.

当它们被发现后，医生通过一个软管把一个小气球进入狭小的区域并且膨胀这个气球去压缩动脉边沉淀下来的血小板。

压紧

1·The sheep, horses, goats and pigs brought by Europeans, however, have hard hooves, which compress the thin soil and cause erosion.

然而，欧洲人带来的绵羊、马、山羊和猪却有着坚硬的蹄子，这压紧了稀薄的土壤并导致了水土流失。

2·The entrance of silicone tube at one end need to compress, if necessary, wrapped it in plaster.

硅胶管入口一端要压紧，必要时包上橡皮膏。

精简

1·Can you compress your speech into five minutes?

你能把你的讲话精简为五分钟吗？

2·We have a table of the elements with properties varying periodically with atomic mass, so we compress all of that information and refer to it as the Periodic Table.

我们有一个元素表，其中的元素的特性，随着原子质量的改变而引起周期性的变化，所以我们将所有的信息精简，将它变成一个周期表。

(1)hot compress热敷法

(1)cold compress冷敷法；冷敷布