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A strong urge or need to do something you feel you cannot control or resist, even if you don't want to do it or know it isn't sensible. It's used in everyday talk (a compulsion to check your phone) and in psychology, where 'compulsions' are repeated actions someone feels forced to do, often linked to OCD ( disorder).
強迫性衝動；強迫行為
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
compulsionnoun/kəmˈpʌlʃən/
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An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
- During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
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The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
- From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
- But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
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The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。