| 词汇 | duress |
| 释义 | duress noun[ U ] formaluk /dʒuˈres/ us /duːˈres/ threats used to force a person to do something: 威胁，胁迫 under duressHe claimed that he signed the confession under duress.他声称自己是在胁迫之下签的供状。 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 force someone's handidiom forced marriage forcible 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 duress | American Dictionaryduress noun[ U ] us/dʊˈres/ threats used to force a person to do something: He signed the contract under duress. duress | Business Englishduress noun[ U ] LAWuk /djʊˈres/us threats used to force someone to do something: Clarke's defence involved claims of duress and allegations he had been framed by the police. He claimed he had been acting under duress. Examples of duressduress This is not because they think her act is excused by duress, though they may believe that as well. Some of the women who remembered seeing other family members regularly recalled that this was out of duress rather than choice. He would, for a start, immediately recognize an attempt to grasp the nature of civic decency under peculiarly modern duress. Potential innocence of detainees is one of the strongest arguments against duress and other state-sanctioned violence one can think of. A close examination of one's own individual speaking voice became necessary, whether under duress or in relaxed 'chatting' mode. Duress is (in some cases) an excusing condition. But given the above, we established that if all of our conditions were fulfilled, the use of duress or coercion could be morally defended. The governor, however, made it clear that he had only done so under duress. Or would one have to ask legal experts to devise a list of duress means that could be acceptable? Characteristically, cultural change did not represent hispanisation, but rather a mixture of coexisting systems that often emerged without great disruption or duress. These tendencies were strongly associated with and rationalised in terms of women's perception of themselves as food providers under the duress of famine. A threatened or defeated people may switch to the traits of a new conquering culture, either voluntarily or under duress. As long as they are virtuous, they deserve protection, that is, they must not be put under duress in police custody. When it comes to preemptive state action, those potentially put under duress are - by definition - innocent. Some treatment plans are embraced with real enthusiasm and conviction, others may even be done with misgiving or under duress. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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