Force Someone's Hand是“强迫某人的手”？No,竟然是这个意思...

Forcing something to happen takes effort, power, strength.

迫使某事发生需要努力和力量。

Forcing someone’s hand sounds painful.

施强力于某人的手听起来很痛苦。

这个短语到底是什么意思呢？下面我们先看对话来理解吧：

对话理解：

A: How did your talk go with Rupert?

A: 你和鲁伯特谈得怎么样?

B: Not good. I had to fire him.

B: 不好，我不得不解雇他。

A: You fired him? But we really need him on this project.

A: 你解雇了他吗?但在这个项目上我们真的需要他。

B: I didn’t plan to! He forced my hand! He refused to work on the project. He wanted to do other work instead.

B: 我本没有这个打算!他逼迫我!他拒绝参与这个项目。他想做别的工作。

A: Oh, yeah. I guess he did force your hand.

A: 哦,好吧。我想他确实逼你了。

总了个结：

When you force someone’s hand, you make them act or speak before they are ready. You give them no other choice. This expression probably comes from card games. Sometimes you are forced to play, one of your cards before you really want to.

当你“force someone’s hand”的时候，你让他们在准备好之前行动或说话，你让他们别无选择。这个短语可能来自纸牌游戏，有时候你不得不在你真正想出牌的时候先出一张牌。

短语：

force someone's hand 迫使某人不得不做或说

举个例子：

1

I would recommend that you wait a bit longer, don't try to force his hand.

我建议你再等一等,不要迫使他仓促行动。

2

He tried to force a copy of his book into my hand.

他硬要把他的一本书往我手里塞。