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  • 发音:[koʊˈɜrs]
  • 例句

  1. To coerce somebody into doing something is to force or threaten them to do things that they are unwilling to proceed.
  2. Human rights groups discredited these apparent confessions and pointed out that Iran has long used brut force to coerce similar public declarations.
  3. On the other side are those who worry that Harper Lee may have been somehow coerced into releasing the book, which was reportedly originally written as a draft of Mockingbird.
  4. Tesla shareholders had accused Musk of coercing Tesla’s board into buying SolarCity, a struggling rooftop solar panel maker, to rescue his investment, and had sought up to $13 billion in damages.
  5. In an investigation published last week by The Athletic, current and former players accused the North Carolina Courage manager, Paul Riley, of emotionally abusing players and coercing them into sex.
  6. Critics argue that workers are essentially being coerced into giving up private medical information, such as their weight, their blood pressure and whether they are at particular risk for cancer.

  • 解释

  1. Coerce这个单词做动词使用,其表示“to compel somebody to things by force or threat”这一含义,即“强迫/迫使/强制(某人做某事)”,与compel/intimidate/force/obligate这些单词构成近义词。实际使用中,该单词通常与介词into连用,构成“coerce somebody into doing something”这一结构。

  2. 具体使用场景如下:

  • Dozens of women who crossed paths with Weinstein through the entertainment industry have said he bullied, pressured, coerced, or overpowered them.(数十名在娱乐业与韦恩斯坦相遇的女性表示,韦恩斯坦欺负、施压、胁迫或压倒她们。)
    —News
  • The company accused U.S. authorities this week of launching cyberattacks to break into its computer systems and of trying to coerce Huawei employees to supply information about it.(该公司本周指责美国当局发动网络攻击以闯入其计算机系统,并试图胁迫华为员工提供有关其的信息。)
    —Technology
  • A spokeswoman for the labor board said on Tuesday that it determined that Apple’s work and confidentiality rules “interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees” from collective action.(劳工委员会的一位女发言人周二表示,它确定苹果的工作和保密规则“干扰、限制或胁迫员工”采取集体行动。)
    —Business
  • Immense economic pressure could eventually coerce everyone into sharing their information with firms, since not divulging your data will itself imply that you are undesirable.(巨大的经济压力最终可能会迫使每个人与公司分享他们的信息,因为不披露你的数据本身就意味着你不受欢迎。)
    —Business

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