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词汇 impel
释义 impel
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪmˈpel/ us /ɪmˈpel/-ll-
to make someone feel that they must do something: 促使,驱使
[ + to infinitive ]She was in such a mess I felt impelled to(= felt I had to) offer your services.她陷入了这么一个烂摊子,我不得不提出让你去帮帮她。
impel someone to do somethingI wonder what it is that impels him to exercise all the time.我不知道是什么原因驱使他成天在锻炼身体。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing somebody to act
arm-twisting
bludgeon
bounce someone into something
browbeat someone into something/doing something
bull something through
coercion
dragoon someone into something
drive someone/something to something
duress
force someone's handidiom
forced marriage
push (someone) toward(s) something
put the heat on someoneidiom
put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom
rallying cry
ram something down someone's throatidiom
ransom
slap
squeeze
wring

impel | American Dictionary


impel
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ɪmˈpel/-ll-
to force someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ]When I see them eating, I feel impelled to eat, too.

Examples of impel


impel
His thirst for public respect was insatiable; for him, honor, more than interest, impelled men's actions.
Moreover, the juridical applicability of welfare assessments impels extra scientific caution in order to avoid conclusive - and meaningful - results.
Sometimes it merely impels arguments that finesse real dilemmas by appeal to utopian values.
And it is not unreasonable to think that interdisciplinary scholarship might impel them.
One might ask what impels this interest in language forgetting.
Descartes here means that an agent is indifferent in his peculiar sense when their will is not impelled by any reason for acting.
The stance of ironic detachment gives way to a violence that impels a sense of commitment.
But what would impel a biological visual system to pose, let alone solve such a problem?
However, two theoretical reasons impel us not to put much store in annual fixed-effects.
Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which they seemed impelled by a desperate fascination, they never returned.
Following an overview of the importance of oracy for learning, the article describes the importance of assessment, especially formative assessment, in impelling progress.
And so our curiosity impels us to explore the block's exterior.
The study of social context in developmental psychopathology is important not least because it impels us to reflect on the social institutions that manage psychopathology.
The conditions in which the mentally ill were kept shocked him, and impelled him to take positive action.
If they do not, then this will impel us to seek other explanations.
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