bend to someone's willとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To yield to persuasion or other pressure originating from someone.
   • 1893, Martha Finley, The Tragedy of Wild River Valley, ch. 15:

     Bangs beset her at every turn, meeting her in her walks and rides, coming on her when she was in the field, and could not escape from him, and urging his suit with persuasions, promises, and threats, determined to win her, in spite of the most firm and decided rejection repeated again and again. […] Bangs waxed more and more wroth at her steadfast refusal to bend to his will.

   • 1919, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, act 2:

     […] this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him.

   • 2013 March 5, Simon Romero, "Hugo Chávez 1954-2013: A Polarizing Figure Who Led a Movement, New York Times (retrieved 23 Aug 2019):

     Other branches of government often bent to his will.

関連する語

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