| 词汇 | break-will |
| 释义 | break someone's will collocation to make someone's life very difficult so that they lose their determination to fight against you: They tried to break his will but he resisted. He believed that in war you have to use every means available to break the will of the enemy. See break will The generals hoped that the aerial bombardment would break the enemy's will. Officials agreed a series of measures aimed at breaking the will of the strikers. It was only in the final part of the race that he was able to break the will of the other cyclists. As a teacher, she preferred to win over the hearts of children rather than try to break their wills. Controlling and being in charge aggrandize assert your authority assume assumption authoritative cynical get the better of someoneidiom get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom govern guiding principle harness peremptorily peremptory play Godidiom plenipotentiary police slow tame wrangle wrangler |
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