compelling

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com·pel·ling /kəmˈpelɪŋ/ adjectiveadj

1 compelling reason/argument/case etc BELIEVEan argument etc that makes you feel certain that something is true or that you must do something about it 令人信服的理由/論點/論據等

Lucy had no compelling reason to go into town.

露西沒有充分的理由去鎮上。

The court was presented with compelling evidence that she’d murdered her husband.

有人向法庭出示了令人信服的證據，證明她謀殺了丈夫。

Examples from the Corpus

compelling evidence• However, the officer in charge of the investigation said it was the only way to gather compelling evidence.• The new studies provide compelling evidence in support of these concepts.• Taken together, they are fairly compelling evidence of prejudice.• But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.

2 INTERESTINGvery interesting or exciting, so that you have to pay attention 極爲有趣的；令人激動的；引人入勝的

His life makes a compelling story.

他的一生是個引人入勝的故事。

► see thesaurus at interesting

3 compelling need/desire/urge (to do something) a strong need, desire etc to do something, making you feel that you must do it 強烈的需求/願望/沖動（去做某事）

He felt a compelling need to tell someone about his idea.

他迫不及待地要把這一想法告訴别人。

Examples from the Corpus

compelling need/desire/urge (to do something)• And it was from these experiments that Work place 2000 emerged as the response to a compelling need for change.• Most women with bulimia, particularly those with a history of anorexia, have a compelling desire to be thinner.• Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.• Suddenly I had a compelling urge to look at Wilkerson.

—compellingly adverbadv

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compelling• This approach to the nature of dreaming is highly compelling.• Freud's approach to the analysis of dreams is highly compelling.• But none of them is very compelling.• Orwell's 'Burmese Days' is a compelling account of life under British Colonial rule.• Sordid and diseased, perhaps, but there's already a compelling and coherent vision at work.• It's all great stuff, and compelling cinema.• He'd had the most compelling eyes she'd ever encountered.• The film was so compelling I could scarcely take my eyes off the screen for a second.• He'd have to have a much more compelling reason than that.• It is hard to find a more compelling reason to quit smoking than the fact that it affects your children's health.• There are compelling societal priorities and pressures to carry out policies of child protection.• a compelling story

compelling story• That he has not been doing this all his life is, of course, the point of this compelling story.

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