Impress

(noun.) the act of coercing someone into government service.

(verb.) dye (fabric) before it is spun.

(verb.) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; 'Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us'.

(verb.) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; 'To make a batik, you impress a design with wax'.

(verb.) impress positively; 'The young chess player impressed her audience'.

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• And yet as we saw it that autumn morning, it was not its beauty which would be the first thing to impress the observer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His work, too, has left its impress for good on the face of Europe. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And he had an abnormal share of youth's normal ambition to impress everybody. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yet scarcely a single accent among the many afloat tonight could have such power to impress a listener with thoughts of its origin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I told Catherine and Ferguson about him and Ferguson was very impressed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He was modestly impressed by Mr. Kenge's professional eminence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Then Hubbard discovered a young man in Washington who impressed him as having remarkable executive ability. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It consists of impressing oil pictures on a bat of glue and then pressing the bat on to the porous unbaked clay or porcelain which transferred the colours. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Any number of dies may now be made from this punch by impressing upon it plugs of soft steel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The prevision of a coming disappointment was impressing itself on their minds as well as on mine. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The most important of these was made by Mr. Bain, who in 1847 applied for this purpose the method of impressing the symbols on paper by electro-chemical decomposition. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• These differences blend into each other by an insensible series; and a series impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The consideration of these various facts impresses the mind almost in the same manner as does the vain endeavour to grapple with the idea of eternity. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Well, that's how Milverton impresses me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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