Enforce
[ɪn'fɔːs;en-] or [ɪn'fɔrs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) ensure observance of laws and rules; 'Apply the rules to everyone';.
(verb.) compel to behave in a certain way; 'Social relations impose courtesy'.
达伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
(v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
(v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
(v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(v. i.) To attempt by force.
(v. i.) To prove; to evince.
(v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.
(n.) Force; strength; power.
整理:鲁道夫
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Give force to, urge with energy, set forth strongly, impress on the mind.[2]. Put in execution, put in force.[3]. Constrain, compel, oblige, force, require.
巴兹尔錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Urge, compel, require, exact, exert, strain
ANT:Relax, waive, forego, remit, abandon
伊桑錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to gain by force: to give force to: to put in force: to give effect to: to urge: (Spens.) to attempt.—adj. Enforce′able.—adv. Enforc′edly by violence not by choice.—n. Enforce′ment act of enforcing: compulsion: a giving effect to: that which enforces.
整理:罗拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Some of his readers suspect him of writing to enforce it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I met, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Such is the condition of our laws and practice that the patentee in seeking to enforce his rights labors under a terrible handicap. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Then leaving her seat, and coming to him to enforce the proposal, added in a whisper, We want to make a table for Mrs. Rushworth, you know. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- No Act of Parliament is now required, as originally proposed by Mr. Winsor, to enforce the burning of coal gas. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- If you study the success of Roosevelt the point is re-enforced. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If by some magic every taboo of the commission could be enforced the abolition of sex slavery would not have come one step nearer to reality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mrs. Jennings enforced the necessity. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- We could not see the enemy, so I ordered my men to lie down, an order that did not have to be enforced. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I described, and enforced them earnestly. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Though the object of our civil duties be the enforcing of our natural, yet the first [First in time, not in dignity or force. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- From all, moreover, as the parable of the buried talent witnesses, and as the incident of the widow's mite enforces, he demands the utmost. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:马丁