喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˈmændətɔːri/ · /ˈmændətəri/強制的；法定必須的

    正式required by law or a hard rule — you must do it, and you cannot choose not to.

    示範例句 · Example

    In this city, wearing a helmet is mandatory for all cyclists.

    逐字在這個城市，戴安全帽對所有騎腳踏車的人是強制的。

    「mandatory」是正式的「法律／硬性規定要求必須做」：法規說你一定要，沒有選擇。mandatory for＋人／群體很常見（helmets are mandatory for cyclists）。它跟 compulsory 很近——都是「規定要做」——但 mandatory 更常帶「依法、硬性、沒商量」的感覺，語氣更強、更正式。necessary 是「需要」，還不一定是法律規定；mandatory 把焦點放在「規定本身已經定了」。

    常見搭配

    • mandatory for

      對……是強制／法定必須的

      required by law or rule for a person or group

      Bike helmets are mandatory for riders under 18.

    • make something mandatory

      把某事訂為強制規定

      to turn a choice into a hard rule that people must follow

      The council made helmet use mandatory for all cyclists.

    • mandatory sentence

      法定刑；法律規定的刑罰

      a fixed punishment set by law, not chosen freely by a judge

      The judge explained that the crime carries a mandatory sentence.

    • mandatory retirement (age)

      強制退休（年齡）

      a fixed age when a job rule says someone must stop working

      The company's mandatory retirement age is 65.

    • mandatory training / course / test

      強制訓練／課程／測驗

      training, a course, or a test that you must take

      New players take a mandatory safety course before the first match.

    意思相近

    compulsoryobligatoryrequirednecessary

    用法接近

    compulsoryobligatoryrequired

core核心畫面

Picture a form with a red beside a field — you cannot submit until it is filled. The word marks the things where choice has been removed by a rule or a law. Its opposite is optional, and holding those two side by side is the fastest way to feel what it means.

可以想成：表格上某個欄位旁邊的紅色星號——沒填就送不出去。這個字標示的是「規定或法律已經把選擇拿掉」的那些事。它的相反詞是 optional（可選的），把這兩個字擺在一起看，最快抓到它的份量。它比 necessary 更硬：necessary 是「有需要」，mandatory 是「規定就是這樣」。

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意思相近

compulsoryobligatoryrequirednecessary

用法接近

compulsoryobligatoryrequired

原始詞典資料4 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。

mandatoryadj/ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/

  • 1

    obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

    • Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.
    • This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
  • 2

    Of, being or relating to a mandate.

    • Mandatory Palestine

mandatorynoun/ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/

  • 1

    A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

  • 2

    datedrareA person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

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。