單詞
compulsion
英 [k?m'p?l?(?)n]
美[k?m'p?l??n]
基本信息
- n. 強制；強迫；強制力
TEM8GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?compulsions;
助記提示
1、com- "together" + puls- + -ion.
2、字面含義：drive together, drive to one place (of cattle).
3、其原始字面含義為：迫使或將其驅趕到一起；后來含義由此引申和一般化，表示廣義的、一般意義的強迫、迫使。
2、字面含義：drive together, drive to one place (of cattle).
3、其原始字面含義為：迫使或將其驅趕到一起；后來含義由此引申和一般化，表示廣義的、一般意義的強迫、迫使。
中文詞源
compulsion 強制
com-, 強調。-puls，推動，詞源同pulse, compel.
英文詞源
- compulsion (n.)
- early 15c., from Middle French compulsion, from Latin compulsionem (nominative compulsio) "a driving, urging," noun of action from past participle stem of compellere "compel" (see compel). Psychological sense is from 1909 in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Selected Papers on Hysteria," where German Zwangsneurose is rendered as compulsion neurosis.
雙語例句
- 1. He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
- 他突然有一種想扔掉水桶撒腿就跑的沖動。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It's a compulsion to write, more than talent, that makes a writer.
- 成為作家要有天分，但更要有創作的沖動。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
- 沒有人強迫你立刻付款。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. They made the prisoners do the work by compulsion.
- 他們強迫囚犯做工.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. Compulsion will never result in convincing them.
- 強迫永遠不會使他們信服.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
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