Persuade
[pə'sweɪd] or [pɚ'swed]
解释:
(verb.) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; 'You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!'.
编辑:梅齐--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
(v. t.) To try to influence.
(v. t.) To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
(v. t.) To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
(v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
(n.) Persuasion.
埃尔顿校对
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Induce, influence, lead, incite, impel, actuate, set on, prevail upon, bring over, win over, bring round.[2]. Convince, satisfy by proof or evidence.
格里塔手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Induce, influence, incline, convince, dispose, urge, allure, incite
ANT:Deter, disincline, indispose, mispersuade, misinduce, coerce, compel
整理:莎丽
解释:
v.t. to influence successfully by argument advice &c.: to bring to any particular opinion: to cause to believe: to convince.—adj. Persuad′able.—n. Persuad′er.—adj. Persuā′sible capable of being persuaded.—ns. Persuā′sibleness Persuasibil′ity; Persuā′sion act of persuading: state of being persuaded: settled opinion: a creed: a party adhering to a creed: (Spens.) an inducement.—adjs. Persuā′sive Persuā′sory having the power to persuade: influencing the mind or passions.—n. that which persuades or wins over.—adv. Persuā′sively.—n. Persuā′siveness.
吉尔达整理
例句:
- I should wish really to persuade you, I replied, if I could. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Can't I persuade you to break away now? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Lionel, you hear: witness for me: persuade your sister to forgive the injury I have done her; persuade her to be mine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But if you went, I should persuade Mr. Thornton to let me give him double lessons. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Terror had deprived him of all presence of mind; he threw himself along the floor, and nothing could persuade him to rise. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- You'd persuade me if you could, that you are a poor Jew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The family don't want her here, and they'll say it's because I've been ill, because I'm a weak old woman, that she's persuaded me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He persuaded them to start cutting the blocks for the Gospel of St. Matthew. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- But still I cannot imagine she would not be persuaded. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- The next day he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- He knew the power she would put in his hands if she consented; there would be no difficulty then in persuading her not to go back to her husband. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Poor Julia scarcely spoke a single word the whole evening; indeed we had the greatest difficulty in persuading her to be of our party. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Archer made no comment on this, and Mrs. Welland continued: But we do most thoroughly appreciate your persuading Ellen to give up the idea. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it, whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- He joins Betteredge in persuading you to drink a little brandy and water before you go to bed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I am blind, and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
希勒尔录入