When we are afraid that nothing else will work, or that we won't make the deadline, or that others might not respond, we often resort to coercive power, or the power to do something to someone.

当我们担心其他别的方式不起作用时，或者担心无法赶上最后期限时，或者担心其他人不响应我们时，我们往往会诉诸强迫性权力，或者对某人做出什么的权力。

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Recently, one of these interest-free loans allowed Edith to treat her son Sammy to something he'd never experienced before: a vacation at a resort in the Dominican Republic.

最近，伊迪丝利用无息贷款，让她儿子有了一次前所未有的经历--到多米尼加共和国的度假圣地度假。

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So what to do with Mendocino County's "bear Woman," who remade her home into something of a luxury resort for more than a dozen bears?

应当怎样处理这位门多西诺郡的“熊女”？又是谁将她家改建成黑熊们的豪华度假村的？

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Those words really have to mean something, and unfortunately he didn't go to war as a last resort.

NPR: Transcript of Presidential Debate

Vincent Napp Sr. and his brother, Louis, were partners in a heavy-construction firm in Newark in the early 1960s when they decided they wanted to do something else, like build a beach resort.

WSJ: New Jersey's Noisiest Neighbor

In a region well known for political turmoil, perhaps it has something to do with martial-arts fiction being the last resort of social justice, where wrongs are righted not through law and order seldom useful in the real world but with the arrival of the martial-arts heroes.

ECONOMIST: The king of kung fu