被拉去做事
同一份名單，換一隻手來寫。法律換成了家長、老師或上司，強制力小了很多，但「不是我選的」這一點原封不動地留著。
verb · C1
To make someone join a group or take part in an activity when they have not chosen it, usually because someone with more say has decided for them.
硬拉某人加入
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a list, and a hand writing names onto it. Once your name is on the list, you go — nobody asked you first, and saying no is not a normal option. Every use of conscript keeps that list somewhere in it: the army list the state , the person whose name was written, and the half-joking family version where the person holding the pen is your mother.
可以想成一份名單，還有一隻正在往上面寫名字的手。名字寫上去，你就得去；沒有人先問過你，說不也不是一般的選項。這個字的…更多收起
可以想成一份名單，還有一隻正在往上面寫名字的手。名字寫上去，你就得去；沒有人先問過你，說不也不是一般的選項。這個字的每個用法裡都還留著那份名單：國家寫的兵單、名字被寫上去的那個人，還有家裡半開玩笑的版本——拿筆的人變成你媽。From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives conscript from Latin cōnscrīptus, the participle of cōnscrībō, 'to write together, to enrol'. The list is not a metaphor added later; writing names down together is what the Latin word says.
依 Wiktionary，conscript 來自拉丁文 cōnscrīptus，是 cōnscrībō「一起寫下、登記」的分詞。所以那份名單不是後來才加上的比喻——「把名字寫在一起」本來就是這個字說的事。
Wiktionary, entry 'conscript' (packet etymology_text, etymology_number 1; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:900526477:13731)
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Also in this word
verb · C1
To order someone by law to join the army, navy or air force for a period of time, whether or not they want to go.
徵召入伍
noun · C1
A person who has been ordered by law to join the army, navy or air force. A conscript did not choose to be a soldier; the law decided it.
被徵召的士兵