Persuade

(verb.) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; 'You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!'.

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• I should wish really to persuade you, I replied, if I could. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Can't I persuade you to break away now? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Lionel, you hear: witness for me: persuade your sister to forgive the injury I have done her; persuade her to be mine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But if you went, I should persuade Mr. Thornton to let me give him double lessons. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Terror had deprived him of all presence of mind; he threw himself along the floor, and nothing could persuade him to rise. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• You'd persuade me if you could, that you are a poor Jew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The family don't want her here, and they'll say it's because I've been ill, because I'm a weak old woman, that she's persuaded me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He persuaded them to start cutting the blocks for the Gospel of St. Matthew. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But still I cannot imagine she would not be persuaded. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The next day he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He knew the power she would put in his hands if she consented; there would be no difficulty then in persuading her not to go back to her husband. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Poor Julia scarcely spoke a single word the whole evening; indeed we had the greatest difficulty in persuading her to be of our party. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Archer made no comment on this, and Mrs. Welland continued: But we do most thoroughly appreciate your persuading Ellen to give up the idea. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it, whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• He joins Betteredge in persuading you to drink a little brandy and water before you go to bed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I am blind, and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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