每日外刊词汇
mandatory/ˈmændətəri/
基本释义
If an action or procedure is mandatory, people have to do it, because it is a rule or a law.
adj.法定的
If a crime carries a mandatory punishment, that punishment is fixed by law for all cases, in contrast to crimes for which the judge or magistrate has to decide the punishment for each particular case.
adj.(刑罚) 强制性的
词组短语
mandatory standard n. 强制性标准，法定标准；推荐性标准
mandatory provident fund 强制性公积金
mandatory measures 指令性措施
同近义词
adj.强制的；托管的；命令的
managed、compulsive
n.受托者（等于mandatary）
bailee、consignee
外刊例句
While some dream of white Christmases, others may yearn for mandatory exchanges of cash, or even a mechanism to randomly allocate the celebrations evenly across months of the year.
虽然一些人梦想着白色圣诞节的到来，还有一些人渴望强制交换现金作为礼物，甚至渴望形成一种机制，将庆祝活动随机分配到一年中的某几个月。
——《经济学人》
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