bear down on

1. The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.
   敌舰企图逼近我们的小汽艇。
2. So saying, he left the bear to stand there and growl, lay down in the corner on a pile of straw and went to sleep.
   说完，他丢下熊在那儿嚎嚎大叫，自己躺倒角落的稻草堆上睡觉了。
3. The other thing to bear in mind is that we don't want to water down the mobile experience for visitors running very capable browsers, such as those found on the iPhone or Android platforms.
   另一个需要留意的事情是我们不想让运行着功能强大的浏览器（例如运行于iPhone或Android平台上的浏览器）的那些访客的移动体验大打折扣。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. Bear down on a task
    加紧努力以完成一项工作
13. Things just bear down on us, I suppose.
    我想，事情只是，刚好发生在我们身上。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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”。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. He's gonna bear down on me and soft-soap you.
    他要打压我，再哄骗你。
20. 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。
21. The polar bear is so grief-stricken at the loss of her cub that she lies down on the ice to die.
    北极熊在失去小熊后受到了太大的打击，甚至想躺在冰上死去。
22. During due diligence, most would-be buyers look to find fault with some aspect of the asset to bear down on price, said Mr Wynne-Smith.
    韦恩-史密斯表示，在尽职调查期间，多数潜在收购者希望找到被收购资产在某些方面的缺陷，以压低价格。
23. 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。
24. If all the consequences areto be bear down upon the victims themselves, not let it be have double torture on the victims& "the old injury did not heal a fresh injury".
    如果将所有后果都得由受害者自己承担，岂不是让其受到双重折磨&旧伤未愈又添新伤。

verb

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

   Synonym:    drag downbear downpress down onweigh down

2. sail towards another vessel, of a ship

   Synonym:    bear down upon