Stress

(noun.) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); 'he put the stress on the wrong syllable'.

(noun.) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; 'the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area'.

(noun.) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; 'she endured the stresses and strains of life'; 'he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger'- R.J.Samuelson.

(noun.) special emphasis attached to something; 'the stress was more on accuracy than on speed'.

(verb.) put stress on; utter with an accent; 'In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word'.

(verb.) to stress, single out as important; 'Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet'.

柏格编辑

• In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But his eyes were beautiful and soft and immune from stress or excitement, beautiful and smiling lightly to her, smiling with her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When they reached the bank there stood Thomasin, in a stress of grief, bending over the two unconscious ones who already lay there. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The resolute side of him had, to all appearance, given way, in the interval since his departure, under the stress that had been laid on it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But in the actual stress of life these frictions do not survive ten minutes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He laid a heavy hand on my shoulder, and leaning on me with some stress, limped to his horse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The approach to issues, the way in which they shall be stressed, what shall be put forward in one part of the country and what in another, are discussed at these meetings. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These stresses are results of the longitudinal and radial pressures of the gas developed by the ignition and explosion of the powder. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Our wars, our social conflict, our enormous economic stresses, are all aspects of that adjustment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The two great western powers, and Rome perhaps more than Carthage, were strained mentally and morally by the stresses of the First War. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These stresses could be used for the benefit of this power or the detriment of that. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

编辑:梅根