【coercion】 - SAT备考词汇

coercion

UK:  [kəʊ'ɜː(r)ʃ(ə)n]

US:  [koʊ'ɜrʃ(ə)n]

n.

1.强迫;压制;强制性

2.强迫;胁迫;高压政治[统治]

1 . Or, to put it another way, government is society's dominant producer of coercion.
我们还可以换成另外一种说法，政府是当今社会中最大的强迫性行为的制造者。

2 . If the negro did not like the correction and ran away, the master had the right to use coercion to bring him back.
这黑人若不愿接受管教而逃走，其主人有权采取强制手段将其追回。

3 . Given the response to Mendoza's article, freedom of speech could seem to be "under coercion" in Venezuela, he says.
他说，就Mendoza的文章收到的反应而言，委内瑞拉的言论自由似乎“遭到了威压”。

4 . Or was it a form of coercion, because the lower class surely had more of a financial incentive to serve?
或者这是某种形式的胁迫？因为较低的阶层去服役肯定出自更多的经济诱因？

5 . Shi and hardware plus or coercion, and made the examiner is too short for his "care to" let him become a special operations team members.
硬兼施外加威逼利诱，终于令考官对于太过矮小的他“高抬贵手”，让他成为了特别行动队的一员。