Compulsion
[kəm'pʌlʃ(ə)n] or [kəm'pʌlʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) using force to cause something to occur; 'though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game'; 'they didn't have to use coercion'.
(noun.) an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid; 'he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident'.
(noun.) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; 'her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly'.
凯西整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
編輯:梅尔维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Coercion, constraint, application of force.
校對:奥利弗
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:For, ce, restraint, control, coercion
ANT:Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The eloquence of power.
手打:菲尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Upon this compulsion, Mr. Godfrey made an effort, and came out with a new and amended version of the affair, to the following effect. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- So, Pilar said and her voice was warm and friendly and there was no compulsion in it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- For if he will not yield to opinion, there follows the gentle compulsion of exile or death. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her grave sweet eyes met his; there was no compulsion, only deep interest in them. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- When you come to fix your memory with a date in this way, it is wonderful what your memory will pick up for you upon that compulsion. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Yorkshire people are as yielding to persuasion as they are stubborn against compulsion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Except on military compulsion, I am not a man of business. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He drew it under the sleeve of his mulberry-coloured great-coat, and I walked on, almost upon compulsion, arm-in-arm with him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Reverence for the hallowed Past and its traditions keeps the dismal fashion in force now that the compulsion exists no longer. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He wanted so much to be free, not under the compulsion of any need for unification, or tortured by unsatisfied desire. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Compulsion is flint and a blow to the metal of some souls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
手打:米米