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单词 press-gang
释义
press-gang
verb[T]
informal
uk
/ˈpres.ɡæŋ/us
/ˈpres.ɡæŋ/
toforceorstronglypersuadesomeone to do something they do notwantto do:
强迫；劝诱
I've been press-gangedintotakingthekidsswimming.我经不住劝诱带了孩子们去游泳。
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Causing somebody to act
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  • bully
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  • impel
  • impose
  • jolt
  • railroad
  • ramsomethingintosomeone
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Urging & persuading
(Definition ofpress-gangfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpress-gang

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Does it not smack, therefore, ofpress-gangmethods?
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It does not now have to rely onpress-ganglabour.
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You will find in the names of thepress-gangthe same family names which appeared in the next generation in the workhouse books.
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It takes my mind back to thepress-gangdays, when certain things had to be done owing to lack of recruits.
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We cannotpress-gangpeople into going to sea as was done in the olden days, and we have got to have a new type of fisherman.
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This is nothing less thanpress-gangmethods.
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She agreed topress-gangthe dock worker clientele, further building her fortune.
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The press masters were not the forcedpress-gangof old but more like a draft board.
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Under his commission he could legallypress-ganglocal fishermen into service for him.
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They cannot be press-ganged into the new structures.
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They were people many of whom were press-ganged into fighting.
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She had been press-ganged by a high-pressure salesman into committing herself to a hire-purchase agreement which she could not afford.
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Three members came to me and said that they had been press-ganged to go onto it.
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They have done it willingly—they have not been press-ganged into it—and they have had increased support as the weeks have gone by and new disaster has come upon new disaster.
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We are not press-ganged into service.
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