英语释义

1. to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
Hunger compelled him to eat. The general was compelled to surrender.

2. to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure
Public opinion compelled her to sign the bill.

3. to drive together

4. to force (someone) to do something

5. to make (something) happen to force (something)

6. to make (as a person) do something by the use of physical, moral, or mental pressure force
… so greatly did hunger compel him, he was not above taking what did not belong to him.
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild

7. to make happen by force
He compelled obedience.

8. to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and especially by authority or law
cannot compel the defendant to testify the result…is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
— R. H. Bork

片语

enforceable可实施的；可强行的；可强迫的

coercible可强迫的；可威压的

英汉例句

• Three methods - essential factors disintegration, compellable distribution method and comprehensive method - are constantly used in the course of the administration of human resources.

  在人力资源管理过程中常用的考核方法有要素分解法、强制分布法、综合法三种。

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