詞彙精選：constrain的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

強迫 [T]

例句：

He tried to constrain himself from a cough during the lecture.

講課時他設法忍住不咳嗽。

例句：

Hunger constrained him to eat.

飢餓迫使他進食。

限制，約束 [T]

例句：

They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade.

他們被指責共同謀求進行貿易限制。

例句：

Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.

女性往往受到家庭責任和低期望值的束縛。

二、詞義辨析：

compel,force,constrain,oblige

這些動詞均含“迫使”之意。compel指在法律、權力、力量或行動等的驅使下被迫而爲。force指用個人意志、權力、權威或暴力等，迫使他人改變看法或做本不願做的事。constrain側重施加約束力或有約束作用的影響，也指環境對人強加的影響迫使人去做某事，尤指受良心、情感等內在力量驅使去做某事。oblige指由於生理上或道德上的需要，促使某人做某事，也指有權威的人或機構迫使某人做某事，還可指在特定情況下被迫作出的反應。

三、參考例句：

They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade.

他們被指責共同謀求進行貿易限制。

They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade.

他們被指責共同謀求進行貿易限制。

Start using xml schema to constrain xml documents.

請開始使用xml模式來約束xml文檔。

If they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

要是可能，還要強迫他參加他們無可救藥的畸形社會。

Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.

有時候環境制約人，有時候環境成就人。【CET-6 2006.01 閱讀】

He tried to constrain himself from a cough during the lecture.

講課時他設法忍住不咳嗽。

But we must accept the challenge that all of us in democratic governments face: to listen to the voices who disagree with us; to have an open debate about how we use our powers and how we must constrain them; and to always remember that government exists

但我們必須接受所有民主政府都會面臨的挑戰：傾聽與我們有分歧的人士的聲音；就我們如何使用權力以及我們必須如何限制權力開展公開辯論；並且始終牢記，政府是爲服務於個人權力而存在，而不是相反。