persuades

英 [pəˈsweɪdz]

美 [pərˈsweɪdz]

v.  劝说; 说服; 使信服; 使相信
persuade的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 劝说；说服
  If youpersuadesomeonetodo something, you cause them to do it by giving them good reasons for doing it.
  1. My husband persuaded me to come...
     我丈夫说服我前来。
  2. We're trying to persuade manufacturers to sell them here...
     我们正在努力劝说制造商在这里销售。
  3. They were eventually persuaded by the police to give themselves up.
     最终他们被警方劝服，同意投案自首。
• VERB 使采取行动
  If somethingpersuadessomeonetotake a particular course of action, it causes them to take that course of action because it is a good reason for doing so.
  1. The Conservative Party's victory in April's general election persuaded him to run for President again...
     4月保守党在大选中获胜促使他再次竞选总统。
  2. It was the lack of privacy that eventually persuaded us to move after Ben was born.
     就是因为想要清静，我们最终在本出生后搬家了。
• VERB 使信服；使相信
  If youpersuadesomeonethatsomething is true, you say things that eventually make them believe that it is true.
  1. I've persuaded Mrs Tennant that it's time she retired...
     我已经说服坦南特夫人她该退休了。
  2. We had managed to persuade them that it was worth working with us...
     我们已经让他们相信与我们合作是值得的。
  3. Derek persuaded me of the feasibility of the idea.
     德里克让我相信这个想法是可行的。

双语例句

• Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs.
  近来我听说一个著名的电视人物声称自己反对广告，因此广告是在说服人们、而不是为人们提供信息。
• The social worker infiltrates gangs, gains their trust, and, eventually, persuades members to return to their families or to seek help elsewhere.
  社会工作者打进团伙，争取信任，最终劝说他们回家或另寻帮助。
• He usually persuades his daughter to book his flights online as he says he is not a computer buff.
  他常常让自己的女儿帮他在线预订航班，因为他说自己对电脑不在行。
• After he persuades Boog to untie him, both of their lives change great.
  在劝说布格和自己结成同盟之后，它们的生活都开始发生了翻天覆地的变化。
• The skeptical Emerson wants no part of the scheme until a request from the War Office and Buckingham Palace persuades him to reconsider.
  半信半疑的埃默森不想踏上征程，直到接到白金汉宫的请求，他开始重新考虑这项提议。
• And it persuades the peoples of so many foreign countries that America is the world's leader.
  还能说服如此众多的外国人认为，美国是世界的领袖。
• And if I judge that my imagination, or some other cause, whatever it is, persuades me that the wax exists, I shall still conclude the same.
  如果判定我的想象力或者不论别的什么原因使我相信蜂蜡存在，我仍将得到同样的结论。
• If regulators approve the deal, News Corp then needs to find a price that persuades shareholders in both companies to go along.
  如果监管机构批准该交易，那么新闻集团需要找到一个可以说服两家公司股东同意交易的收购价格。
• That sense of creating something new and important persuades some people to go back even to deeply troubled countries.
  这种创造重要的新事物的感觉，促使一些人回到了即使深陷困境的祖国。
• They may also ask how the author persuades readers to accept his or her assertions, or about the reason behind the author's use of any particular supporting detail.
  哪里在反驳一个观点。结构题也可能会问到是如何说服读者接受自己的主张的，或者使用某个特别的支撑细节的原因。