COMPEL

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Traducere în limba română

compel verb tranzitiv

1. a sili, a forţa, a constrânge, a obliga.

2. a impune, a obţine (cu forţa);

to compel attention a atrage / a reţine / a captiva atenţia.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Every minute or so he was compelled to rest.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

"I don't think you were made to write. Forgive me, dear. You compel me to say it; and you know I know more about literature than you do."

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I should be compelled to stop the night.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She compelled obedience from him, and the older he grew the shorter grew her temper.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I am compelled to tell you, sir, that I do not recognize you in that capacity.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, sir,” observed Mr. Chillip, “I hope you'll excuse me, if I am compelled to ask the favour of your name?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I was compelled to repeat my question loudly before he answered: Not all the time.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Compelled by force or necessity.

(Forced, NCI Thesaurus)

My dear Sir Charles Tregellis, it ran, it will ever be a subject of regret to me that the force of circumstances should have compelled me to leave your service in so abrupt a fashion, but something occurred during our journey from Friar’s Oak to Brighton which left me without any possible alternative.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is no woman in all London who loves her husband as I do, and yet if he knew how I have acted—how I have been compelled to act—he would never forgive me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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