Under pressure from U.S.President Barack Obama, BP bosses have decided not to pay out dividends to their shareholders this year.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Pressure has dropped out of the picture completely here. So there is no p dependence here.

理想气体的H只是温度的函数,这对于真实气体来说是。

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Iron as an element is a solid. That's it's most stable state at room temperature and pressure, right, and so on. And then we can figure out heats of formation.

铁单质是固态,这是他在室温和常压下,最稳定的状态，然后我们,可以算出生成热，现在这个。

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Officials want to use that pressure to flush fresh water out into the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil offshore.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

If I look at different points in my container during that path, I'm going to have to use a different value of pressure or different value of temperature That's not an equilibrium state, and that process turns out then to be an irreversible process.

如果我要研究在路径中容器里的,不同的点，我就得在容器里不同的点上使用,不同的压强值,或不同的温度值,实际上这不是个平衡态，这个过程是,不可逆过程。

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The kidnappings, most observers believe, were designed to pressure Mr.Tsvangirai to pull out of the political agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Or in many kinds of gas refrigerators where you push a gas through a nozzle close to room temperature, what you find is that the gas coming out on the other side under lower pressure is cooler than the gas that went through on the other side.

或者在很多种压缩气体式冰箱中,你让气体通过接近室温的管口,你会发现从压力低的一边,出来的气体比通过,另一边的气体更冷,真正的冰箱实际上通过。

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Aside from keeping weapons out of the Gaza Strip, one of Israel's goals in mounting the blockade was to pressure Gazans to topple Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Remember it's the external pressure that's important. In this case, because it's a reversible process, the external pressure turns out to be always the same as the internal pressure.

是过程非常缓慢,比如我把体积，从V1压缩到V2时，我做得十分缓慢,在过程中的任何一点。

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Even as the Iranian government is trying to deflect international pressure, it is still dealing with the fall-out of its disputed presidential election in June.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Pakistan is an ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism and has been under pressure from Washington to intensify efforts to root out extremists blamed for launching attacks on coalition forces across the border in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

He was acquitted in a 2006 rape trial, during which he admitted having unsafe sex with an HIV-positive woman, and he came under political pressure recently when it emerged that he fathered a child out of wedlock last year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

"I am one of the few new guys." "I definitely have been able to get a sort of perspective of what to expect and what to look out for in terms of managing the added pressure and different situations that are above and beyond something that I have ever encountered."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09