元: currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan), first, original, primary, fundamental, constituent, part, era (of a reign), meta- (prefix), (math.) argument, variable, (Tw) (geology) eon...
由来: origin...
迫使: to force, to compel...
薄: thin, cold in manner, indifferent, weak, light, infertile...
伯父: father's elder brother, term of respect for older man...