• vt. 强制，迫使

co-, 强调。-erk, 限制，保护，词源同ark, arcane.

coerce

coerce: [17] The underlying etymological meaning of coerce is ‘restraining’ or ‘confining’. It comes from the Latin compound verb coercēre ‘constrain’, which was formed from the prefix co- ‘together’ and the verb arcēre ‘shut up, ward off’ (possibly a relative of Latin arca ‘chest, box’, from which English gets ark). An earlier, 15th-century, form of the English word was coherce, which came via Old French cohercier.
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coerce (v.)

mid-15c., cohercen, from Middle French cohercer, from Latin coercere "to control, restrain, shut up together," from com- "together" (see co-) + arcere "to enclose, confine, contain, ward off," from PIE *ark- "to hold, contain, guard" (see arcane). Related: Coerced; coercing. No record of the word between late 15c. and mid-17c.; its reappearance 1650s is perhaps a back-formation from coercion.

1. Clark had somehow been able to coerce Jenny into doing whatever he told her to do.

不知是用什么办法，克拉克总能让珍妮对他言听计从。

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2. Obama would deploy soft power the power attract rather than coerce.

奥巴马将运用“巧实力外交”的拉拢性力量取代强制性力量.

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3. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats.

威胁通过威胁或近乎威胁强制或禁止.

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4. You can't coerce her into obedience.

你不能强制她服从.

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5. I will never coerce you.

我永远不会强迫你们.

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