One of these expressions is Hobson's choice. It often is used to describe a difficult choice. But that is not what it really means. Its real meaning is to have no choice at all.
而其中一个表便是霍布森的选择。它常被用来描述一个困难的抉择。但这还不是这个表语的确切含义。它真正的含义是根本别无选择。
At this early stage of risk-analysis, who can say what the right decision is, yet all three of my friends feel under pressure to have the vaccination, as though there was no real choice in the matter.
在风险分析的早期阶段，谁能说正确的决定是什么，而我的三位好朋友感到注射疫苗的压力，好像在这件事上没有真正的选择。
But the Nobel committee could have made a braver, more difficult, choice by declaring that there would be no recipient at all.
不过，诺贝尔委员会本可以作出一个更大胆、更艰难的选择：宣布今年根本没有获奖者。
It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.
这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果，某个人比其他所有人跑的都快，就好像这场竞赛中，除了第一你别无选择。
After all, you spend eight hours a day together, you depend on each other for the survival of the business, and you have no choice but to at least tolerate one another.
毕竟，每天共事8小时。在激烈的商战中求生存必须互相帮助，起码能互相包容，求同存异。
Parents have no choice and they can't give their children a good beating, which is of no use at all.
父母没有别的选择，恨不得狠狠地教训孩子一顿，但是那也没有用。
Parents have no choice and they can't give their children a good beating, which is of no use at all.
父母没有别的选择，恨不得狠狠地教训孩子一顿，但是那也没有用。
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