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| 1 | C the action of squeezing something 挤；榨；捏 | He gave her shoulder a comforting squeeze. 他捏了一下她的肩表示安慰。 | |
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| 2 | C a small amount of something that is squeezed out of something 挤出来的少量事物 | a squeeze of lemon juice 挤出来的少量柠檬汁 | |
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| 3 | singular a situation in which a lot of people or things are squeezed into a space 挤；拥挤 | It was a squeeze to get everyone into the car. 让所有的人都上车会很拥挤。 | |
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| 4 | singular a situation in which there is strict control over money or goods 紧缩；拮据 | a squeeze on costs/profits/wages 压缩成本/利润/工资 | | put a/the squeeze on sb/sth The government’ s putting the squeeze on business profits. 政府正对企业利润实行严格的控制。 | | feel the squeeze The economy is said to be improving, but many of us are still feeling the squeeze. 据说经济正在回升，但我们很多人仍感到很有压力。 | |
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| 5 | C AMERICAN informal a boyfriend or girlfriend 男友；女友 |
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