Coercion
[kəʊ'ɜːʃ(ə)n] or [ko'ɝʒən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of coercing.
(n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
吉莉安手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Restraint, check, curb.[2]. Compulsion, constraint.
弗洛西錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- The coercion, if mild, was complete. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Activity carried on under conditions of external pressure or coercion is not carried on for any significance attached to the doing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The cures he prescribed were vigorous government interference, strict magisterial vigilance; when necessary, prompt military coercion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But the men, having got a little more wages, thought they would try coercion and get a little more, as we were considered soft marks. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The doubtful legitimacy of such rough coercion did not disturb the mind of Venn. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I will not have it cast in my teeth, at some future day, that Madame Fosco acted under my coercion, and was, in plain fact, no witness at all. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
手打:穆里尔