| 单词 | coerce |
| 释义 | co·erce /kəʊˈɜːs $ ˈkoʊɜːrs/ verb [transitive] FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them 强制；胁迫；迫使coerce somebody into (doing) something The rebels coerced the villagers into hiding them from the army. 叛乱者强迫村民将他们藏起来，以躲避军队。► see thesaurus at force→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscoerce• Three days later, Ray asked to withdraw his plea, claiming it had been coerced.• They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.• Ray withdrew his confession, saying that he had been coerced by the police.• Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same forcemajeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market.• She hadn't coerced him in any way.• This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power, claims Mallet.• In many cases, young women are coerced or bribed into relationships with older men.• Officials coerced peasants into voting for the government candidates.• The company paid the workers the minimum rate of $4.86 an hour, but coerced some to give back half their pay in cash.• The mine owners coerced the workers into going back to work, by threatening to close down the mines completely.• And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.coerce somebody into (doing) something• Churchill then wanted to coerce the owners into a national agreement and statutory arbitration.• Such desires may involve coercing the woman into behaving in the way the man wants her to.• Yet it must be by sane means that he trick and coerce the crew into following him.• Then, despite the light, the whistle coerced itself into his dreams.• You tried to coerce her into marrying Liu Shengli in violation of the Marriage Law.• In many cases, young women are coerced or bribed into relationships with older men.• Attempts to coerce people into retiring must be resisted; rights to retraining must also be secured.• Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission, the Celtic Church was simply subsumed.Origin coerce (1400-1500) Latin coercere, from co- ( → CO-) + arcere “to enclose”co·erce verbChineseSyllable force do someone to to something want Corpus do they not |
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