English Dictionary

impress

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. / (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive. / (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

日本語の意味

（他動詞）～に強烈かつ好意的な印象を与える、感銘を与える / （自動詞）印象を与える、印象深くなる / （他動詞）～に鮮明な印象を刻む、印象づける

The chef hoped his new dessert would impress the food critics.

シェフは自分の新作デザートが料理評論家に強い好印象を与えることを望んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.

意味（3）

(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.

意味（4）

(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

意味（5）

To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

意味（6）

(figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

意味（7）

(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.

意味（8）

(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.

impresses （ present singular third-person ）

impressing （ participle present ）

impressed （ participle past ）

impressed （ past ）