compulsion
n. 強迫; 強制; 衝動; 打動人的力量
A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run...
他突然有一種想扔掉水桶撒腿就跑的衝動。
It's a compulsion to write, more than talent, that makes a writer.
成為作家要有天分,但更要有創作的衝動。
If someone uses compulsion in order to get you to do something, they force you to do it, for example by threatening to punish you if you do not do it.
Many universities argued that students learned more when they were in classes out of choice rather than compulsion...
很多大學認為如果學生上課是出於自願而不是被迫,那麼他們學到的東西會更多。
There is already an element of compulsion in existing government schemes for the unemployed.
政府現行的失業方案已經有點強制的意味了。
1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
2. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
3. using force to cause something;
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
一個人的所作所為,不僅是外界所迫也是內心所需.
John will take his medicine only by compulsion.
只有對他用強制手段約翰才會服藥.
Pierre: touche. So then, why don't we see whose compulsion gets them the next piece.
皮埃爾: 說得好. 那麼我們就看看到底誰的衝動能為他取得下一個火種源吧.
They told the truth by compulsion.
他們被迫說出事情的真相.
So then, why don't we see whose compulsion gets them the next piece.
那麼我們就看看到底誰的衝動能為他取得下一個火種源吧.