compulsion

英 [kəm'pʌlʃ(ə)n] 美[kəm'pʌlʃən]

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复数: compulsions;

1、com- "together" + puls- + -ion.
2、字面含义：drive together, drive to one place (of cattle).
3、其原始字面含义为：迫使或将其驱赶到一起；后来含义由此引申和一般化，表示广义的、一般意义的强迫、迫使。

compulsion 强制

com-, 强调。-puls，推动，词源同pulse, compel.

compulsion (n.): early 15c., from Middle French compulsion, from Latin compulsionem (nominative compulsio) "a driving, urging," noun of action from past participle stem of compellere "compel" (see compel). Psychological sense is from 1909 in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Selected Papers on Hysteria," where German Zwangsneurose is rendered as compulsion neurosis.

1. He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.: 他突然有一种想扔掉水桶撒腿就跑的冲动。

2. It's a compulsion to write, more than talent, that makes a writer.: 成为作家要有天分，但更要有创作的冲动。