coerce
coerce 英 [kəʊˈɜ:s] 美 [koʊˈɜrs]
vt. 强制，迫使
进行时:coercing 过去式:coerced 过去分词:coerced 第三人称单数:coerces 名词复数:coerces
- 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 him have fun.
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- vt. 强制，迫使
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1. They were coerced into negotiating a settlement.
他们被迫通过谈判解决。
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2. I was coerced into joining the gang.
我被迫加入匪帮。
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3. He was coerced into making a confession.
他被迫招供。
- coerce (v.) mid-15c., cohercen, "restrain or constrain by force of law or authority," from Old French cohercier, from Latin coercere "to control, restrain, shut up together," from assimilated form of com- "together" (see co-) + arcere "to enclose, confine, contain, ward off," from PIE *ark- "to hold, contain, guard" (see arcane). The unetymological -h- was perhaps by influence of cohere. Related: Coerced; coercing. No record of the word between late 15c. and mid-17c.; its reappearance 1650s is perhaps a back-formation from coercion.
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