either from gas or water, is pushing it.
这种巨大的压力来自地下天然气或水。
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 13 The search for oil

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

water ['wɔtɚ] 词频1
n. 水;雨水;海水;海域; v. 给…浇水;供以水;加水稀释;流泪;
💡 字母W像水的波浪，联想到水。
"A gentle wind disturbed the surface of the water."
微风拂动水面.
近义：irrigate, squirt, douche, weep, blubber, boohoo
pushing
a. 有精力的, 富有进取心的, 莽撞的
近义：hustling, jostling, assertive, assertory, powerful, puissant

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away.
他们也可能用过木头和兽皮，但这类东西早已腐烂殆尽。
The question became one of whether Man could control the disease he had invented.
现在的问题是，人类能否控制住这种人为的疾病。
like a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars,
如果人生不只是群星寒光中平凡的一闪，
and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.
并且目前尚无停止上升的迹象，
Arthur C.Clark once suggested a revolutionary idea passes through three phases:
Arthur C.Clark曾经提出，一个革命性的想法经过三个阶段：
Sometimes a tame elephant is tethered nearby to give the wild one confidence,
有时，把一头已驯服的象拴在旁边能给野象以信心。