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, "conscript" (etymology 1)
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