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Coerce Make Pressure Civilized N 英 Kəʊ'ɜːs] 美 Koʊ'ɜːrs

英语单词 coerce
英美音标 英 [kəʊ'ɜːs] 美 [koʊ'ɜːrs]
中文释义 vt.强制;威胁
英语例句 (1) You can't coerce her into obedience.
(2) Do you think there is any way that we can coerce them otherwise?
(3) His plan was to resist every effort to coerce him to the last ditch.
(4) The policy of the prohibition against using tortures to coerce a statement is provided clearly and definitely.
中文例句 (1) 你不能强制她服从。
(2) 你认为我们有什么办法强迫他们不那样吗?
(3) 他的计划就是要同那欺凌他的力量抵抗到底。
(4) 严禁逼供信政策明确规定了公安机关及其人员在讯问过程中不得刑讯逼供。
vocabulary简明 You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can coerce — or pressure — someone to attend your office holiday party, but you can't make them have fun.
vocabulary扩展 If you're at a point where you feel like you need to coerce someone into doing something, it might be more civilized to just give up. To coerce is to manipulate, use aggressive arguments, pressure unfairly, or threaten — really, this isn't very civilized behavior, is it? Handy synonyms for this verb include force and pressure. In a gangster film, you might hear a character say he "put the squeeze" on someone — another way of saying he coerced them.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]强制;胁迫;迫使 If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
  [V n into -ing/n]
  [Also V n to-inf]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty...

    波特辩称是政府强迫他认罪的。

  • Clark had somehow been able to coerce Jenny into doing whatever he told her to do.

    不知是用什么办法,克拉克总能让珍妮对他言听计从。

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