Nine dams failing, buckling under the pressure of historic rains.

在这场历史性降雨的压力下9座大坝崩塌，变弯曲。

Under the pressure of a pandemic, many firms will change the way they operate.

在疫情的压力下，许多公司将改变其经营方式。

The roads and rails criss-crossing big cities already creak under the pressure of growing populations.

日益增长的人口已经令大城市的道路和十字交叉口不堪重负。

Under the pressure of events, we shout, slam doors and let out screams (or wails) .

在重压之下，我们大喊、摔门、尖叫（或者哀嚎）。

I choked under the pressure of those evaluative eyes on me.

我被那些评价性的目光压得喘不过气来。

That you buckled under the pressure of your research.

你承受不了你的研究压力。

Some young executives crack under the pressure of having to meet tough sales targets every month.

【crack】一些年轻的主管崩溃了，他们压力很大，每个月都要完成很高的销售指标。

This recent pandemic was a sobering reminder that  our society can easily crumble under the pressure of microscopic organisms.

最近的这场大流行是一个发人深省的提醒，我们的社会很容易在微生物的压力下崩溃。

In addition, the collapse of two dams under the pressure of the flooding water sent even more water rushing toward these towns, creating more catastrophic damage.

此外，由于两座大坝在洪水的冲击下崩溃，导致更多的水涌向这些城镇，造成了更严重的破坏。

The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour.

两只大帆都张起来了，借着风力雪橇以每小时四十英里的速度在结冻的雪地上飞驰开了。

I say, I can conceive this, if he were under the pressure of hard circumstances — if he had been harassed as I feel sure Lydgate has been.

我说，我可以想象， 如果他处在艰难环境的压力下——如果他像我确信利德盖特那样受到骚扰。

Much of her best work seems to have been written under the pressure of great personal crisis. After her marriage ended, her work was not as sharp as her earlier writing.

她很多的好作品似乎都是在巨大的个人危机压力之下完成的。在婚姻结束后，她的作品不像之前的那样锐利了。

Mr. Farebrother said little: he was deeply mournful: with a keen perception of human weakness, he could not be confident that under the pressure of humiliating needs Lydgate had not fallen below himself.

法瑞布拉瑟先生很少说话：他深感悲痛：凭借对人性弱点的敏锐洞察力，他无法确信在屈辱需要的压力下，利德盖特没有屈服于自己。

They could see the flowers tremble in the bride's hand, even at that distance, and could hear her mechanical murmur of words whose meaning her brain seemed to gather not at all under the pressure of her self-consciousness.

他们可以看到新娘手中的花在颤抖，即使距离那么远，也可以听到她机械地低声说出这些词，她的大脑似乎根本没有在自我意识的压力下收集这些词的含义。

" I choked under the pressure of those evaluative eyes on me, " she recounted in a TEDMed talk in 2017. Impelled in part by that upsetting experience, she went on to earn degrees in cognitive science, psychology and kinesiology.

她在 2017 年的 TEDMed 演讲中回忆道：“那些对我评价的目光让我感到窒息。”部分是受到那次令人不安的经历的推动，她继续获得了认知科学、心理学和运动机能学学位。

With the mechanical action of an habitual smoker, he placed the cigar close to his ear and squeezed it to make it crack. Immediately he uttered a cry of surprise. The cigar had yielded under the pressure of his fingers.

他以习惯抽烟的机械动作，将雪茄放在耳边，用力挤压，让它裂开。顿时发出一声惊呼。雪茄在他手指的压力下变软了。

Machinery had already been applied to shoe manufacture, but only to a limited extent; under the pressure of war conditions, however, American inventive skill found ways of performing mechanically almost all the operations that had formerly been done by hand.

机器已经应用于制鞋，但程度有限；然而，在战争条件的压力下，美国的发明技能找到了机械执行几乎所有以前手工完成的操作的方法。