compulsion

英[kəm'pʌlʃn] 美[kəm'pʌlʃn]
  • n. 强迫;强制;难以抗拒的冲动;(不能克制的)欲望
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星级词汇:
    n. (名词)
    1. 强迫
    2. 强制
    3. 冲动
    4. 【心】强迫作用
    5. 打动人的力量
    6. 强制力
    7. 【心】难抗拒的冲动
    8. 强迫力
    9. 迫切
    10. 天大的力量
    11. 强烈欲望
    12. 被迫
    13. 欲望
    14. 要求
    15. 难以抗拒的冲动

英英释义

Noun:
  1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid;

    "he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident"

  2. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will;

    "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"

  3. using force to cause something to occur;

    "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"
    "they didn't have to use coercion"

1. He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
他突然有一种想扔掉水桶撒腿就跑的冲动。

来自柯林斯例句

2. It's a compulsion to write, more than talent, that makes a writer.
成为作家要有天分,但更要有创作的冲动。

来自柯林斯例句

3. You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
没有人强迫你立刻付款。

来自《权威词典》

4. They made the prisoners do the work by compulsion.
他们强迫囚犯做工.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. Compulsion will never result in convincing them.
强迫永远不会使他们信服.

来自《简明英汉词典》

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. I will pay nothing under compulsion.
      在强迫之下我分文也不愿付。
    2. Compulsion will never result in convincing them.
      强迫永远不会使他们信服。
    3. John will take his medicine only by compulsion.
      只有对他用强制手段约翰才会服药。
    4. She felt a sudden compulsion to hit him.
      她突然感到一种难以抗拒的冲动,想要揍他。
    5. Drinking is a compulsion with him.
      喝酒是他克制不住的欲望。
    6. He felt an inner compulsion to write.
      他感到內心有一种写作的强烈欲望。