bear down

1. PHRASAL VERB 向…逼近；冲向
   If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
   1. A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar...
      一伙六个人走进酒吧，冲向吧台。
   2. The girl flashed a dazzling smile at the television crew and cameras bearing down on her.
      这个女孩对着向她围拢的电视台工作人员和摄影机灿烂一笑。
2. PHRASAL VERB 用力下压；使劲往下推
   To bear down on something means to push or press downwards with steady pressure.
   1. The roof support structure had collapsed and the entire weight was bearing down on the ceiling.
      屋顶的支架倒塌了，全部重量都压到了天花板上。

1. A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar
   一伙六个人走进酒吧，冲向吧台。
2. The girl flashed a dazzling smile at the television crew and cameras bearing down on her.
   这个女孩对着向她围拢的电视台工作人员和摄影机灿烂一笑。
3. The roof support structure had collapsed and the entire weight was bearing down on the ceiling.
   屋顶的支架倒塌了，全部重量都压到了天花板上。
4. The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.
   敌舰企图逼近我们的小汽艇。
5. As dark forces bear down on Hogworths the three vow to skip their final year at school in order to find the remaining Horcruxes and defeat Lord Voldermort once and for all.
   黑暗势力席卷魔法学校，三人决定最后一年辍学，去寻找剩下的魂器，打倒伏地魔。可惜，邓布利多糟了暗算。哎。悲剧开始了。
6. Second, bear down on the huge uninvested corporate profits, including by reforming taxation.
   其次，把企业未投资出去的巨额利润消化掉，办法包括实施税收改革。
7. When you meet challengers and obstacles, you have the resourcefulness and discipline to bear down and focus on these challenges.
   当你遇到挑战和障碍的时候，你会以耐力和责任感来承受，并集中精力来解决这些困难。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. I think a lot of it's just sticking around, trying to give yourself as many opportunities as possible and trying to bear down when you do get those opportunities.
    我觉得我们更多的是保持并试图给自己更多机会，并且在机会到来时，抓住它。
11. We are humans though and sometimes there is a need to bear down and really refocus efforts.
    我等皆凡人但有些时候我们也需要全力以赴并高度集中精力。
12. My batting trainer told me to bear down on my swing.
    我的棒球教练告诉我挥棒时（应该）往下压。
13. 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。
14. I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare.
    我实在不忍心看着大熊一步一步向野兔逼近。
15. To bear down on energy usage would require a different approach.
    抑制能源使用将需要采取一种不同的方式。
16. Things just bear down on us, I suppose.
    我想，事情只是，刚好发生在我们身上。
17. He tried his best to bear down all of his oppositions.
    他尽全力击败一切反对意见。
18. The pen does not write unless you bear down hard on it. His writing style is concise and infectious.
    如果你不用力，这只笔就写不出来。他的文笔凝练，很有感染力。
19. The pen doesn't write unless you bear down hard on it.
    如果你不用力，这只笔就写不出来。
20. 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”。
21. They would be shouting here again, the roar of children's roller skates would bear down on him from behind.
    他们又会在这里大声呼喊起来，小孩溜旱冰的轰鸣声又会从背后向他铺天盖地袭来。
22. 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。
23. He is able to bear down all the difficulties in his studies.
    他能克服他学习中遇到的一切困难。
24. We need to bear down if we want to make this work.
    如果想使这个产生效果。我们就要竭尽全力。
25. He's gonna bear down on me and soft-soap you.
    他要打压我，再哄骗你。
26. 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。
27. It is not right for a man to bear down his neck to the oppressor always.
    让一个人总是向著他的敌人低头是不对的。
28. The nurse will tell you when to bear down.
    护士会告诉你分娩过程中什么时候该用力。
29. As the costs of climate change bear down on the poor, so their demands grow that rich countries, which caused most of the problems, should help them cope.
    穷国承担气候变化的成本，另一边要求大多数问题的始作俑者&富国帮助他们应对的需求也在增加。

  approach bear down【导航词义：接近】

  approach v. 走进；临近

〔辨析〕使用范围很广，通常指在空间或时间上逐渐靠近。

  bear down phr. v. 逼近

〔辨析〕指速度很快且带有威胁地向某人、某物或某地移动，常后接介词 on。

verb

1. exert a force or cause a strain upon
   1. This tax bears down on the lower middle class

2. pay special attention to
   1. The lectures bore down on the political background

3. exert full strength
   1. The pitcher bore down

4. to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
   1. he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork

   Synonym:    charge

5. contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

   Synonym:    overbear

6. exert a force with a heavy weight
   1. The snow bore down on the roof

   Synonym:    drag downbear down onpress down onweigh down