单词 | impel |
释义 | im·pel 1. a. < impelled out of England … by religious dissension — Evelyn Wrench > : exert strong moral pressure on or affect with marked moral compulsion in a particular direction < impelled to resist oppressive laws > < felt impelled to tolerate what he intensely disliked > < continued to write, impelled by profit instead of vision and recollection — Saturday Review > b. < land hunger impelled the deceit, trickery, bribery which whites practiced upon the red man — H.M.Hyman > < his symphonies and symphonic poems are impelled by picturesque Celtic folklore — Norman Demuth > 2. < impelling a wheelbarrow along the street — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonyms: see move |
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