compulsion

• n.強制; 強制; 強制力

com-、強調する。-puls、押す、語源的にはpulse、強制と同じ。

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.

彼は突然バケツを捨てて足を投げようとする衝動に駆られた。

2.It 's a compulsion to write,more than talent,that makes a writer.

作家になるには天分が必要だが、創作への衝動が必要だ。

3.You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.

すぐに支払いを強要する人はいません。

4.They made the prisoners do the work by compulsion .

彼らは囚人に仕事を強要した。

5. Compulsion will never result in convincing them.

強制は決して彼らを納得させない。