歷史上抓人上船的那一夥人，以及他們做的事
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gang forcing men onto ships · noun
In the past, a group of men who walked round a town or port, took hold of young men by force, and made them join the crew of a ship, usually a navy ship.
抓伕隊
One scene holds the whole word. A group of men walks into a port town, takes hold of whoever they find in the street, and marches him onto a ship. The man never agreed to go, and nobody asked him. Everything else the word does is that same scene, either told as history or shrunk down to the size of an ordinary favour.
這個字可以想成一個畫面。一群人走進港口的街上，抓住路上的年輕人，直接把他押上船。被抓的人從頭到尾沒有答應過，也沒有人問過他。這個字的每一種用法，都回到這個畫面：要嘛是把它當歷史來講，要嘛是把它縮小，拿來形容日常生活裡「被盧到只好答應」的小事。
From the word’s history
The name says what the thing is: press plus gang, the gang that presses people into going. The word carries its own picture on the outside.
這個名字本身就說明了它是什麼：press（逼）加上 gang（一夥人），也就是「逼人去的那一夥人」。畫面直接寫在字面上。
Wiktionary, "press-gang"
Two branches
比喻：被盧到只好答應
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press-gang someone into doing something · verb
To keep pushing someone until they agree to do a job they did not want to do. It is used in a light, informal way about ordinary tasks, and often the person is not really being forced at all.
硬拉去做