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force

英 [fɔːs] 美[fɔrs]
  • n. 力量;武力;军队;魄力
  • vt. 促使,推动;强迫;强加
  • n. (Force)人名;(意)福尔切;(英、法)福斯

英英释意


1. a unit that is part of some military service;
"he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
2. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;
"the mysterious presence of an evil power"
"may the force be with you"
"the forces of evil"
3. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity;
"force equals mass times acceleration"
4. group of people willing to obey orders;
"a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
5. a powerful effect or influence;
"the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
6. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);
"he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
7. physical energy or intensity;
"he hit with all the force he could muster"
"it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"
"a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
8. a group of people having the power of effective action;
"he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
9. (of a law) having legal validity;
"the law is still in effect"