| 单词 | enjoin |
| 释义 | enjoin (once / 964 pages) v To enjoin is to issue an urgent and official order. If the government tells loggers to stop cutting down trees, they are enjoining the loggers to stop. Enjoin looks like it should mean bring together, and at one time, it did have that meaning. But in current usage, the only thing enjoin brings together is a command and the person on the receiving end of that order. If your doctor enjoins you to stop smoking, he is suggesting strongly that you quit. WORD FAMILYenjoin: enjoined, enjoining, enjoinment, enjoins+/enjoinment: enjoinments USAGE EXAMPLESThese include a rule doubling the salary threshold for exempting workers from overtime pay, which a federal court enjoined last month. Wall Street Journal(Dec 09, 2016) "Alt-right" activists could be seen making Nazi salutes at a conference in Washington DC over the weekend, where a speaker enjoined them to "Hail Trump". BBC(Nov 23, 2016) Aspirational and clear, it signals positive intentions, enjoining us to do more good rather than simply be less bad. Nature(Nov 13, 2016) 1v give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority Syn|Hypo|Hyper order, say, tell direct command with authority instructgive instructions or directions for some task command, requiremake someone do something call, send fororder, request, or command to come warnask to go away chargeinstruct or command with authority chargeinstruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence burden, charge, saddleimpose a task upon, assign a responsibility to requisitionmake a formal request for official services cite, summon, summonscall in an official matter, such as to attend court beepcall, summon, or alert with a beeper call back, recallsummon to return call insummon to a particular activity or employment liftcall to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs mustercall to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, vetocommand against hailcall for summonask to come stetprinting: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative) call up, mobilise, mobilize, rallycall to arms; of military personnel request ask (a person) to do something 2v issue an injunction Hyper disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto command against |
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