Its real meaning is to have no choice at all.

它的真正意思是没有选择或无从选择。

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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。

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He will have no choice but to ally himself with the new movement.

他将别无选择，只能与这个新运动结盟。

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"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

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We have no choice but to understand that Milton's mask is serious business The whole production is one of the utmost seriousness.

我们没有选择只能理解《面具》是件很严肃的事,整个演出都是很严肃的事情。

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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。

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Yes, many fundamentally non-liberal politicians found themselves reforming their economies because they seemed to have no choice.

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"I knew that Efimkin was going to have no choice but to attack - he is one of my former team-mates, " Sanchez said afterwards.

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Since health care is such a large part of the deficit, the super committee is going to have no choice but to cut reimbursements.

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