persuade的意思|persuade的解释-里氏词典

persuade [pә'sweid]

vt. 劝, 使相信, 恳求, 敦促, 说服

vi. 劝服, 被说服

[法] 唆使, 说服, 劝诱

persuade

[ verb ]

win approval or support for

<verb.social>

carry

sway

Carry all before one
His speech did not sway the voters

cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm

<verb.communication>
You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!

Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. i.
To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
--Shak.

Persuade \Per*suade"\, n.
Persuasion. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Persuaded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Persuading}.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per +
suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See {Per-},
and {Suasion}.]
1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty,
expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination
by presenting sufficient motives.

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. --Acts
xxvi. 28.

We will persuade him, be it possible. --Shak.

2. To try to influence. [Obsolescent]

Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
--2 Kings
xviii. 32.

3. To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or
suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.

Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.
--Heb. vi. 9.

4. To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to
recommend. --Jer. Taylor.

Syn: To convince; induce; prevail on; win over; allure;
entice. See {Convince}.

To persuade the old-line Takashimaya Co. department-store chain to help him launch his own department stores, he took an unwelcomed 10% stake in the company.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, smarting from a 50 percent downturn in options trading since the Oct. 19 stock market collapse, is trying to persuade brokers and investors to return to the market.
Forte, which is said to be attempting to persuade shareholders in the Savoy Group to support its ambitions for a combined luxury hotel group, moved ahead in early trading before sliding back to close a halfpenny ahead at 231 1/2p.
But it is not beyond imagination to think of ways to use the military leverage the U.S. now has in the region to persuade Mr. Hussein to say yes.
Expanding on an earlier campaign pledge, Bush also said he would seek to persuade the Soviet Union and China to join industrial nations of the West in forging new restrictions on the sale of missiles capable of carrying chemical weapons.
Denmark contended that the higher VAT wouldn't affect prices and that the government would launch an information campaign to persuade wholesalers and retailers not to raise their prices.
University President John Silber helped persuade Bush and Mitterrand to come to the school's urban campus.
So, too, have China's Communist rulers. When the socialists took power in Portugal in 1974, it was the Chinese government which had to persuade the Portuguese to stay.
Other Reagan advisers have suggested Reagan try to persuade the Soviets to level the facility in the interest of preserving the ABM treaty.
Perhaps they will now persuade Congress to banish the lobbyists and let a reforming president get on with the job of providing it.
David Owen resigned as leader of Britain's opposition Social Democratic Party after failing to persuade members to vote against merging with the Liberal Party.
"I am sure we will persuade enough Members of Parliament to carry the measure," Waddington told Channel 4 TV News.
Two of the leading abortion rights groups are split over whether an economic boycott against Idaho will effectively persuade the governor to veto the country's most restrictive state abortion law.
Nakajima has said he has tried to persuade PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to withdraw the application, apparently as a means to defuse the situation.
Employees of "The San Francisco Experience," where the motto is "Feel the Earth Shake," had to persuade people to leave on Oct. 17, manager Craig Patterson said.
It is ironic that the country most loath to impose capital controls is now in the position of having to persuade its allies to refrain from indiscriminately funding the Soviet Union.
Ernst & Whinney's Mr. Lerner is heading an effort by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to persuade Congress to repeal the measure.
However, there is a fundamental difference between the two markets, best illustrated by the following ancecdote: An investor friend of mine was trying to persuade his father to buy stock in a northern Mexico steel company.
"He who does not want to make decisions for our people should not try to persuade them the best thing is a division of our fatherland," Kohl said in his first speech to Parliament on East Germany's historic border openings.
By far the quickest and cheapest way to tackle urban traffic congestion would be to persuade more people to use them. Instead, buses are in a spiral of decline.
"I'm sure Yale will be making an effort to persuade the president to locate his library here or at least some place near here," said Jack Siggins, an administrator of Yale's library.
Local Canada Customs officials have asked the agency that operates the international bridges to expand the customs facilities and are trying to persuade Ottawa to allocate more staff.
Attempts by a church mediator to persuade management to resume talks were proving unsuccessful, said Michnik.
WATER companies have never found it easy to persuade their customers that water is scarce and expensive, and the present rain cannot help. In the past two weeks Anglian Water and Essex Water have announced compulsory metering for some of their customers.
The privatisation authorities said that they expect to persuade hundreds of thousands of Hungarians to pay the token Ft2000 fee to join the small shareholder programme and buy up to Ft100,000 worth of shares on highly preferential terms.
'I was the one who could persuade the other countries to give us the opt-out deal because they knew that when I said it was necessary, it was true.
He has to persuade an essentially conservative electorate that his party's reputation for internal squabbling and utopianism is no longer true. In the eight months since he became leader, he has made considerable progress.
They said a unified approach by the U.N. would be needed to persuade the Cambodian factions to compromise after more than 11 years of civil war.
By contrast, the German and Japanese governments couldn't persuade their constituents to contribute anything more than money to the effort.
The company hopes to persuade patients' insurance companies to come up with the rest, although insurance companies as a rule do not reimburse patients for experimental treatments.

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