Constrain

(v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

(v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

(v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

(v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

(v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

整理:伊冯

• I heard of the outrage,' said Bradley, trying to constrain his working mouth, 'but I had not heard the end of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But I constrain no man to converse or to feed with him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• O for the lyre of some Orpheus, to constrain, with touch of melodious strings, these mad masses into Order! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It makes instruction and learning formal, mechanical, constrained. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the last degree constrained, reserved, diffident, troubled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• You have told me several times that you pity me, and I, in my turn, pity you, who have used the words _I am constrained_. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I describe everything exactly as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander from the task. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He constrains himself to touch him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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