impress
impress 英 [ɪmˈpres] 美 [ɪmˈprɛs]
v. 盖印；给予某人深刻印象 n. 印象，印记；
进行时:impressing 过去式:impressed 过去分词:impressed 第三人称单数:impresses 名词复数:impresses
- Think of the verb impress as "leaving a mark." You might impress a print onto canvas, or you might impress prospective employers in a job interview. Whether that impression will be good or bad is up to you!
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- v. 盖印；给予某人深刻印象
- n. 印象，印记；
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1. His sincerity impressed her.
他的真诚打动了她。
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2. He impressed her with his sincerity.
他的真诚打动了她。
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3. It impressed me that she remembered my name.
令我佩服的是她记得我的名字。
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4. I was impressed that she remembered my name.
令我佩服的是她记得我的名字。
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5. He impressed on us the need for immediate action.
他让我们认识到立刻采取行动的必要。( impress sth on/upon sb)
- impress (n.) "act of impressing" (1590s), also "characteristic mark" (1580s), from impress (v.1). From 1620s as "badge worn by nobility or their retainers," from Italian impresa; earlier in English in this sense as impreso, imprese (1580s).
- impress (v.1) late 14c., "have a strong effect on the mind or heart, to stamp deeply in the mind," from Latin impressus, past participle of imprimere "press into or upon, stamp," also figurative, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" (from PIE root *per- (4) "to strike"). Literal sense of "to apply with pressure, make a permanent image in, indent, imprint" is from early 15c. in English. Related: Impressed; impressing.
- impress (v.2) "levy for military service," 1590s, from assimilated form of in- (2) "into, in" + press (v.2). Related: Impressed; impressing.
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