SOONneeding to be discussed or dealt with very soon 紧迫的,迫切的SYN urgent
pressing problem/matter/need etc
Poverty is a more pressing problem than pollution.
贫穷是比污染更紧迫的问题。
Examples from the Corpus
pressing• Survival is the most pressingconcern of any new company.• a pressing need for medicalsupplies• The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressingoperation as possible - which takes about four months.• More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondaryrole.• On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.
pressing problem/matter/need etc• Few envisaged what was to come, for there were more pressing problems.• Fundingissues For many centres, securing funding for the new qualifications is a pressing need.• If the Sargents were concerned about Margarett, they did nothing about it; they had a more pressing problem.• Others say tax money should be used to solve more pressing problems.• The client may then be asked to re-order this list in terms of the most and least pressing problems.• Only a few delegatessensed that pressing problems had been shelved.• She had more pressing matters in hand.• The United States in 1938 saw no pressing need to play any great role in the world.
pressing2 noun
1[countableC] a thing or group of things, especially records or CDs, that have been made by pressingplastic or metal into shape 压制品;一批压制品〔尤指唱片或光盘〕
The CD, released in October, sold out a first pressing of 1,500 in just four months.
这张光盘发行于10月份,第一批压制的1,500张仅仅四个月就销售一空。
2[countableC, uncountableU] the act of pressing something 按,压,挤,推;压平;压榨
The olives are heat treated during the second pressing.