press gang 抓兵队
press-gang able-bodied men 抓壮丁
gang press 排式压床 ; 复动压力机 ; 排式压机
gang drill press 成排钻床
gang punching press 成排冲压机
press s gang 拉夫
gang type hydraulic press 联立式平板硫化机
同义词： press gang
以上来源于: WordNet
V-T If you are press-ganged into doing something, you are made or persuaded to do it, even though you do not really want to. 强迫; 迫使; 强力劝说 [usu passive]
I was press-ganged into working in that business.
我是被迫做这个行当的。
She was a volunteer, she hadn't had to be press-ganged.
她是位志愿者，不是被逼来的。
V-T If people are press-ganged, they are captured and forced to join the army or navy. 强征...入伍; 抓...充军 [老式] [usu passive]
They left their villages to evade being press-ganged into the army.
他们为避免被强征入伍而离开了自己的村庄。
The government denies that the women were press-ganged.
该国政府否认妇女被强征入伍。
N-COUNT In former times, a press-gang was a group of men who used to capture boys and men and force them to join the navy. (旧时为海军抓壮丁的)征兵队
The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring.
那帮水手们也注意到了人群拥到了一处，并且弄明白了红字的涵义，便也凑近来，把让太阳晒得黑黑的亡命徒的面孔伸进了圈子。
He was freed a week later for an unknown ransom, though the local press say the gang was beaten down to a mere 1.4m naira plus the actor's fancy car.
一周以后他被释放，赎金不为外人所知。但据当地媒体报道，他付出的赎金仅为14万奈拉，外加他的那辆名贵小汽车。
Zhu Gang, Ed. Twentieth Century Western Critical Theories. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Education Press, 2001.
朱刚编，《二十世纪西方文艺批评理论》，上海：上海外语教育出版社，2001年。
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