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Compel Led Compelled Force Compelling   [V Housing Feel

英语单词 compel
英美音标 [kəm'pel]
中文释义 vt.强迫,迫使
vocab简明 Compel means to force or drive someone to do something. Even if you don't like toast, when you visit the toast-eating natives of Shrintakook Island, you'll be compelled to eat it, or they will not trust you.
vocab扩展 You don't want to be compelled to go to a classical music concert if you'd rather listen to rap. School officials might be upset if a winter storm compels them to cancel classes, but you'd be okay with that. A compelling mystery forces you to pay attention because you want to find out "whodunit."
真题原句 The idea is intuitively compelling, but it doesn't explain how ideas actually spread.
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[VERB 动词]强迫;逼迫 If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
  [V n to-inf]
  [Also V n]
  • ...the introduction of legislation to compel cyclists to wear a helmet...

    强制骑自行车者戴头盔的法律的出台

  • Leonie's mother was compelled to take in washing to help support her family...

    利奥妮的妈妈被迫在家替人洗衣服,以贴补家用。

  • Local housing authorities have been compelled by the housing crisis to make offers of sub-standard accommodation.

    住房危机迫使当地的几个房管部门提供不够标准的住房。

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[PHRASE 短语]觉得必须(做…) If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
  [V inflects]
  • Dickens felt compelled to return to the stage for a final good-bye...

    迪肯斯觉得必须返回舞台作最后的道别。

  • I felt morally compelled to help.

    我觉得从道义上我必须帮忙。

来源 2010.3

Tags: 单词::2010

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