COMPRESS - Translation from English into Chinese

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compress¹ [kəmˈpres] VB trans

compress: 压缩 yāsuō

compress: 浓缩 nóngsuō

Can you compress your speech into five minutes?: 你能把讲话压缩在5分钟之内吗？

compress² [ˈkɒmpres] N

compress: (伤口的)敷布 fūbù

compress: 压布 yābù

Present
I	compress
you	compress
he/she/it	compresses
we	compress
you	compress
they	compress

Past
I	compressed
you	compressed
he/she/it	compressed
we	compressed
you	compressed
they	compressed

Present Perfect
I	have	compressed
you	have	compressed
he/she/it	has	compressed
we	have	compressed
you	have	compressed
they	have	compressed

Past Perfect
I	had	compressed
you	had	compressed
he/she/it	had	compressed
we	had	compressed
you	had	compressed
they	had	compressed

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Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

Can you compress your speech into five minutes?: 你能把讲话压缩在5分钟之内吗？

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

Compressing the air increases its pressure and temperature.

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Elastic energy occurs when objects are compressed and stretched.

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Such an erosion (3mm) can give rise to vertebrae slipping over one another and compressing the spinal cord.

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Telephone networks and audio noise reduction systems make use of this fact by nonlinearly compressing data samples before transmission, and then expanding them for playback.

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The grounds are gently compressed with the stemmed disc into a uniform layer across the cup's pierced bottom.

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