- 1脅迫、強制
Coercion is when someone makes you do something you do not want to do, by threats or hard orders — not by asking, and not by leaving you a real choice. The threat can be open ("Do this or I will hurt you") or quieter ("Do this or you lose the job / the place at school"). Governments, police, bosses, and sometimes families can use coercion; it can be physical, or it can be fear of what will happen next. It is a formal word. In ordinary talk people usually say force, push, or make someone. You will meet coercion in news, law, and school essays. Though actually, writers stretch it: some call heavy social pressure or a very strong sales pitch "coercion" even when nobody is breaking the law. Other people keep the word for real threats. So look at how strong the pressure is, and whether the person could still say no.
From the word’s history
From Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō, from coërceō 'to restrain', from co- + arceō 'to shut in'.
源自拉丁文 coërceō「約束」，由 co- 加 arceō「圍住」組成。
組成From Latin co- ("with, together") + arceō ("to shut in, enclose"). The Latin verb meant "to hold someone in, to restrain them." The noun came through French into English.
同家族的字
- coercethe verb: to use coercion on someone
- coercivethe adjective: using or based on coercion
- coercivelythe adverb: in a coercive way
原始詞典資料6 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。
coercionnoun/kəʊˈɜːʃən/
- 1
Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.
- 2
lawUse of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- 3
A specific instance of coercing.
- 4
computingengineeringmathematicsConversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- 5
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion
- ...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided.
- 6
The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
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