- 1脅迫；強迫（用威脅或壓力逼人就範）
To coerce someone is to make them do something they do not want, by threats or other hard pressure, not by asking nicely. It is stronger than persuade (talk someone round) and colder than ask. The pressure might be a threat of harm, of losing a job, of getting a person into trouble. It is a formal word; news reports and courts like it. The matching noun is coercion, and coercive describes the kind of pressure. Though actually, coerce does not have to mean hitting someone. The threat can be quiet and dressed up as rules, which is why people argue about where ordinary pressure ends and coercion begins.
組成From Latin coerceo, “to hold in, restrain”: co- (together) + arceo (to shut in, keep off, hold back).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coerceverb/kəʊˈɜːs/
- 1
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- 2
To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- They coerced their children into going to the country park.
- A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsTo force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
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