compulsion 的定义
- the act of compelling; constraint; coercion.
- the state or condition of being compelled.
- Psychology. a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, especially one that is irrational or contrary to one's will.
compulsion 近义词
drive, obligation
更多compulsion例句
- There is a monster at the end of all of my novels, and I want you to feel this unbearable compulsion to turn pages and find out what it is.
- It was a compulsion to build an intellectual life that blended the so-called two cultures.
- According to reports, education minister Lawrence Wong said that the country believes 70% adoption could help push it to its next level of reopening, phase three—but that this could be achieved only through legal compulsion.
- Feeling tired and exasperated and overburdened a few weeks ago after working on a long and complicated story and getting very little sleep, I sourly informed Twitter that I felt a compulsion and a God-given right to commit a venial sin.
- So far, these companies have experienced little pushback and are under no compulsion to change.
- It is natural and created without our willing it so and without compulsion.
- And many fans may feel a compulsion to add their voice to the crowd shouting out for these rights to be protected.
- Ultimately, his fascination with the drug gave way to compulsion and a struggle to break the habit.
- Why should the compulsion to excel—which propels these privileged students to Oxford.
- One step too far, and ambition turns into unrealistic expectations, compulsion into craziness.
- We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
- There is a restiveness in human nature that resists compulsion, even to its own manifest advantage.
- There is no need, however, to extend the régime of compulsion over the whole field.
- Mr. Highcamp was a plain, bald-headed man, who only talked under compulsion.
- Does man stand in need of compulsion before he can be brought to humble himself with sincerity?