One picture holds all of this: something is being pushed along and it keeps moving because the push keeps coming. A car is pushed forward by its engine, a heap of snow is pushed across a field by the wind, a person is pushed on by a want they cannot put down. Driven is always the thing at the receiving end of that push.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary's etymology tree gives driven as drive + -en, tracing drive back to Old English drīfan, with the older sense of pushing or driving something along. That older push is what all three uses still rest on.
資料來源的字源樹把 driven 拆成 drive 加上 -en，並往上追到古英語的 drīfan，本義是「驅趕、把東西推著走」。今天這三種用法都還踩在那個「推」上面：推車、推雪、推人。
Wiktionary 'driven' etymology tree, supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:178799852)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
drivenadj/ˈdɹɪvn̩/
- 1
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
- highly driven
- driven person
- 2
Formed into snowdrifts by wind. (of snow)
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。