Constrain
[kən'streɪn] or [kən'stren]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
(v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
(v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
(v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
(v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
整理:伊冯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Compel, force, drive, oblige, coerce.[2]. Confine, restrain, inthral, hold, curb, put under restraint, keep down, keep under.
編輯:米考伯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See COERCE]
校對:米里亚姆
解釋/意思:
v.t. to urge with irresistible power: to force compel: to distress: to confine: to limit: to cause constraint.—adj. Constrain′able.—p.adj. Constrained′ forced compelled: embarrassed.—adv. Constrain′edly.—n. Constraint′ irresistible force: compulsion: confinement: repression of one's feelings: embarrassment.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I heard of the outrage,' said Bradley, trying to constrain his working mouth, 'but I had not heard the end of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But I constrain no man to converse or to feed with him. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- O for the lyre of some Orpheus, to constrain, with touch of melodious strings, these mad masses into Order! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It makes instruction and learning formal, mechanical, constrained. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In the last degree constrained, reserved, diffident, troubled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You have told me several times that you pity me, and I, in my turn, pity you, who have used the words _I am constrained_. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I describe everything exactly as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander from the task. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He constrains himself to touch him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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