coax
【考法1】vt. 哄騙:to persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery; cajole
【例】coax a child to take its medicine 哄小孩吃藥
【近】blandish, cajole, wheedle, palaver
coda
【考法1】n. 終曲:the concluding passage of a movement or composition
【例】A song includes prelude, loud song and coda. 一首歌包括前奏,高潮和尾聲。
【近】finale, epilogue
【反】overture, prelude 前奏
coerce
【考法1】vt. (以武力)強制:to achieve by force or threat
【例】be coerced into agreeing 被強迫同意 || A confession was coerced from the suspect by police. 罪犯被員
警逼供。
【近】force, threaten, compel
【派】coercion n. 強力壓迫:the act of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to
do
【反】voluntary behavior 自願的行為
coeval
【考法1】adj. 同時代的,同齡的:of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
【例】Two stars thought to be coeval because they have nearly the same mass and brightness. 兩個星星同齡因
為他們的品質和亮度幾乎相同。
【近】coetaneous, coexisting, concurrent, contemporaneous, simultaneous, synchronic, synchronous
【反】asynchronous, noncontemporary, nonsimultaneous 不同時的
cogent
【考法1】adj. 令人信服的:appealing forcibly to the mind or reason: convincing
【例】Six Sigma is one of the most cogent methods for modern enterprises to control quality and optimizing
process. “六西格瑪”方法是現代企業進行品質控制和工藝優化最令人信服的方法之一。
【近】convincing, compelling, conclusive, telling, persuasive, satisfying
【反】unconvincing, unpersuasive 不令人信服的
【考法2】adj. 相關的:pertinent, relevant
【例】a cogent analysis 一項相關的研究
【近】apropos, germane, relative, relevant
【反】extraneous, irrelevant, impertinent, irrelative 無關的
