peer pressure

短语

同侪压力

词形变化

peer pressures 复数 peer pressures peer pressured peer pressures 三单 peer pressuring peer pressuring 现在分词 peer pressured 过去式 peer pressured 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Inducement or influence by one's peers.

    同侪压力

    不可数

    She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution.

v.
  1. 1.

    To induce or influence one's peers.

    非正式 及物

    He was peer-pressured into taking drugs.

词源

From peer + pressure. First use appears c. 1957 in the publications of Ruth Strang.

来源：wiktionary