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Change log entry 78648
Processed by: richwarm (2023-04-15 03:55:31 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 73746 - submitted by 'tubbums32' >>
top definition in the oxford english-chinese dictionary
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Editor: Thanks.
Yes, "persuade" is good.
"prevail" is not good because
a) "prevail" has 4 or 5 senses, most of them not matching 劝服
b) 劝服 means "prevail upon" rather than just "prevail"

Ex.
雖然她至今未能勸服父母「放下街坊鄰居的輿論壓力」,接納出嫁13年的女兒「也想帶著兒女搬回家孝順父母」的心願,值得慶賀的一大步是:今年她已經徵得婆婆及母親的同意,「大年夜就回娘家,初二才回婆家!」
though she hasn't yet succeeded in persuading her parents to "ignore social pressures from neighbors" and accept her offer to move back home (with her husband of 13 years and her children) to care for them, they have made big progress: this year her mother-in-law and mother agreed that she would visit her natal home on Lunar New Year's Eve before traveling to her mother-in-law's home on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

如果李登輝演的是歌仔戲,宋楚瑜演的就是京戲,手法非常細緻,」郭淑敏說,從推動老國代退職,他一位位親自勸服;
Says Kuo, "If Lee Teng-hui is a Taiwanese opera performer, then James Soong is a Peking opera actor-Soong's moves are refined down to the last detail." For example, when the KMT was trying to persuade elder National Assembly members to retire, Soong met with them all individually.

在道德勸服已經失效的今天,要想讓青少年延緩性行為的發生年齡、減少性伴侶,並且避免後遺症,可有什麼新法寶?
Diff:
- 勸服 劝服 [quan4 fu2] /prevail/convince/
# + 勸服 劝服 [quan4 fu2] /persuade/prevail/convince/
+ 勸服 劝服 [quan4 fu2] /to persuade; to convince; to win (sb) over/
By MDBG 2024
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