"Now, sirs," quoth then this Osewold the Reeve, I pray you all that none of you do grieve, Though I answer, and somewhat set his hove*, *hood <11> For lawful is *force off with force to shove.* *to repel force This drunken miller hath y-told us here by force* How that beguiled was a carpentere, Paraventure* in scorn, for I am one: *perhaps And, by your leave, I shall him quite anon. Right in his churlish termes will I speak, I pray to God his necke might to-break. He can well in mine eye see a stalk, But in his own he cannot see a balk."<12>英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
"It is all a question of a force; of establishing communications for a force," replied that adept, affably, ignoring some military mutterings about the police force. "It is what you in the West used to call animal magnetism, but it is much more than that. I had better not say how much more. As to setting about it, the usual method is to throw some susceptible person into a trance, which serves as a sort of bridge or cord of communication, by which the force beyond can give him, as it were, an electric shock, and awaken his higher senses. It opens the sleeping eye of the mind."英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》
Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life giving; a creator of free men and women.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
'What is this?'he asked, interrupting, 'a serial stawry? Getting no answer he called my name, and when Force had paused he came near. 'In the sixth chapter and fifth verse of Proverbs,'said he, 'it is written:
"Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler." Deliver thyself, Brower. I did so, ducking under Force's arm and hastening to my chamber. 'Ye have a brawling, busy tongue, man,'I heard McClingan saying. 'By the Lord! ye should know a dull tongue is sharper than a serpent's tooth. 'You are a meddlesome fellow,'said Force.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
In the meantime King Olaf sailed with a war force out of the fjord along the coast northward, intending to proceed to Halogaland, and baptize there. When he came north to Bjarnaurar, he heard from Halogaland that a force was assembled there to defend the country against the king. The chiefs of this force were Harek of Thjotta, Thorer Hjort from Vagar, and Eyvind Kinrifa. Now when King Olaf heard this, he turned about and sailed southwards along the land; and when he got south of Stad proceeded at his leisure, and came early in winter (A.D. 998) all the way east to Viken.英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
-- * "The agitation, the frenzy, the sorrow of the times, reacted upon the human intellect, and FORCED men into meditation. Their own nature was held up before them in a sterner form. They were compelled to contemplate an ideal of man, far more colossal than is brought forward in the tranquil aspects of society; and they were often engaged, whether they would or not, with the elementary problems of social philosophy. Mere danger forced a man into thoughts which else were foreign to his habits. Mere necessity of action forced him to decide." -- Thomas De Quincey's `Essay on Style'.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Haley, there are forces in the universe that we don't understand... measurable forces that...can't be explained, but cannot be denied... and that's-that's what this is.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Well, he can force me to stay, but he can't force me to love it.美剧 · 《Suits》
Actually,it's centripetal force, Which is an inward force generated by the glass acting on the olive...美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Is the government doesn't have to force us to do painful things to get off oil -- is the government doesn't have to force us to do painful things to get off oil --演讲 · 《Winning the oil endgame ~ Amory Lovins》