bend someone's willとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

bend someone's will (三人称単数 現在形 bends someone's will, 現在分詞 bending someone's will, 過去形および過去分詞形 bent someone's will)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To persuade or otherwise induce someone to change his or her views or to choose a different course of action.
   • 1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, History of France, ch. 5: The Wars of Religion:

     [W]hen Catherine tried to draw him to court by proposing a marriage between him and her youngest daughter Margaret, Jeanne left him at home, and went herself to court. Catherine tried in vain to bend her will.

   • 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, ch. 20:

     [E]ven her love could not avail to bend his will. As if the hold of her arms was that of a child's he loosened it and stepped away.

   • 2005 January 23, Simon Turnbull, "Carry on Shearer: Given's plea to captain, Independent (UK)(retrieved 23 Aug 2019):

     Despite Shearer's insistence that he intends to hang up his scoring boots at the end of the season, Souness has pledged to keep pestering him to change his mind. Whether the Iron Laddie is for turning remains to be seen, but the pressure to bend his will is being applied from within the Newcastle dressing-room as well as from the manager's office.

関連する語

• bend to someone's will (intransitive)
• bend (someone または something) to one's will (transitive)