词组 | squeeze |
释义 | squeeze /skwiːz/ verb 1. to press something together with your fingers or handadverbssqueeze (sth) gently He squeezed her hand gently in his.squeeze (sth) hard She pointed the gun and squeezed the trigger hard.squeeze (sth) tightly She was squeezing so tightly that her knuckles were white.prepositionssqueeze sth out of sth (=remove it by squeezing) I tried to squeeze a little toothpaste out of the tube.squeeze sth together Squeeze your legs together for ten seconds.2. to strictly limit the amount of money that is available to a company, organization etcadverbssqueeze sth hard A huge rise in production costs has squeezed the industry hard.nounssqueeze margins/profits The higher cost of borrowing money is squeezing margins for small businesses.squeeze suppliers The big supermarkets are squeezing suppliers more than ever before.squeeze the economy Political pressures continue to squeeze the economy. |
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