Compel

例句:

• What should I do--how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence, and think of those three? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We determined therefore to go on unless stopped by a force sufficient to compel obedience. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I am not interested in the marriage, and even if I were I could not compel Mr. Wildeve to do my bidding. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I would rather not have gone into this question at present, but you compel me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Were Britain a serfdom and you the Czar, you could not _compel_ me to this step. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Law itself should not compel me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Pennsylvania Assembly has made such a law; New-York Assembly has refused to do it; and now all the talk here is, of sending a force to compel them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This work proved too hard, his health broke down, and he was compelled to give up the position. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For once I must, was the answer; and if I had not slipped aside and kept out of his way, he would have compelled me to this second performance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Pirates now filled the field, and the lawsuits which they were compelled to bring to defend themselves went against them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Well, that is generous, said Mr. Farebrother, compelling himself to approve of the man whom he disliked. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He turned and looked about him, sternly compelling himself to regain his consciousness of outward things. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• That future greatness had always been in his thoughts, and had been one of the compelling powers in his great chemical discoveries. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I hope, in that case, all my impulses will be strong in compelling me to love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was compelling fortune, he felt. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The first represented the decision-compelling spirit, the second the spirit of risking little to gain a little. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In that case, who was the likeliest person to possess the power of compelling her to remain at Welmingham? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Excuse me, he continued: necessity compels me to make you useful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Mechanical inventions suggest a change: a dispossessed class compels it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By means of this method one high-class clock, usually in an astronomical observatory, compels a number of other clocks at considerable distances to keep time with it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Ay, answered Isaac, but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Those again who are forced, are those whom the violence of some pain or grief compels to change their opinion. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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