Leith felt an overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth.
利思感到一阵强烈的冲动,想把实情告诉他。
the compulsion to smoke or eat too much
想要吸烟或暴饮暴食的强烈欲望
2[singular, uncountableU]FORCE somebody TO DO something the act of forcing or influencing someone to do something they do not want to do 强迫,强制 → compel
under (no) compulsion to do something
Owners are under no compulsion to sell their land.
不得强迫业主出售土地。
The use of compulsion in psychiatric care cannot be justified.
compulsion to do something• If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strainscredulity.• He was a voraciousreader with a compulsion tofinish everything he started.• A compulsion toride in glasselevators in Marriott hotels.• But some kind of late-blooming compulsion to be honest is making it harder for me to stay under cover.• Burnout often results from a neuroticcompulsion to give it all away.• When he was around I felt no compulsion tobind myself to people in this terrible, demanding way.• An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightenedself-interest is more likely than regulatorycompulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.• I had felt the lure of the unexplored, the compulsion to go where others had not been.
Origincompulsion
(1300-1400)Old FrenchLate Latincompulsio, from Latincompellere; → COMPEL
ADJECTIVE | ... OF COMPULSION | VERB + COMPULSION | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤strange奇怪的強迫心理▸➤inner內心的衝動... OF COMPULSION➤element (BrE) 強迫的成分◇There is an element of compulsion in the new plan for the unemployed.新的失業方案有強迫的成分在裏面。VERB + COMPULSION➤feel, have感到衝動;有衝動欲望◇He felt an inner compulsion to write.他感到內心有一種想要寫作的衝動。PREPOSITION➤under compulsion被迫◇You are under no compulsion to disclose this information.沒有人強制你披露這一信息。PHRASES➤there is no compulsion沒有強制要求◇There is no compulsion to say anything.沒有規定一定要說什麼。