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Terrorism

 

恐怖襲擊的新聞一再出現，發生的地點亦不止中東，而是法國、德國、美國... ... 究竟什麼是「恐怖主義」？聯合國有沒有統一的說法？今集 Jo 和 Kevin 暫時放下傷痛，跟大家直面恐懼。

Terrorism is usually understood as the use or threat of violence to further a political cause. There is no universally agreed definition of terrorism making it a difficult object to quantify.

[Our World in Data - https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism/] 

 

terror 
(noun 名詞)

 

1. 恐怖活動
► a terror attack  恐怖襲擊

 

2. 恐懼
例子：He was frozen by/with terror.  他嚇呆了。

 

3. 可怕的人; 恐怖的事物; 討厭的人; 討厭的事
例子：a little terror / a holy terror   小搗蛋鬼
例子：a terror for cleanliness 潔癖

 

terrorist 恐怖分子
(noun 名詞)

例子：a terrorist gang/organization 恐怖集團／組織

 

terrorise 恐嚇
(verb 動詞)

例子：Street gangs have been terrorising the neighbourhood.

 

► to terrorize sb. into doing sth.  脅迫某人做某事

 

terrible 可怕的; 嚴重的; 非常討厭的
(adjective 形容詞)

 

1. 有病的

例子：I feel terrible. 我覺得很不舒服。

2. 糟糕的

例子：You look terrible in that shirt. 你穿那件襯衣難看死了。

3. 在某方面／做某事很差勁

► to be terrible at sth. / doing sth.

例子：I’m terrible at dancing.

 

terribly 非常
(adverb 副詞)


例子：terribly well  好極了

例子：I'm terribly sorry.   我感到十分抱歉。

例子：Your wife misses you terribly.  你的妻子十分想念你。

例子：The procedure went terribly wrong.  程序出了大問題。

 

violence暴力(行為)
(noun 名詞)

 

► do violence to 違背

例子：It would do violence to her principles to work after office hours.  破壞她的原則

例子：That piece of news has done violence to the truth. 那則新聞歪曲了事實。

 

violent 殘暴的; 暴力引起的
(adjective 形容詞)

例子：violent film/clash/attack/protest/behaviour   暴力電影／衝突／襲擊／抗議／行為

 

The death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad巴格達, has risen to 250, making it the deadliest such attack since the 2003 US-led invasion.                    [BBC]

 

toll（受傷／死亡）人數
(noun 名詞)

 

例子：the death toll   死亡人數

 

► takes its toll / take a heavy toll 毀壞/造成嚴重損失

例子：The cold weather takes its toll on our health.

 

Kevin’s classroom

death (noun 名詞)   vs   die (verb 動詞)   vs   dead (adjective 形容詞)
vs deadly (adjective 形容詞 /adverb 副詞)

 

► He is dead.   vs   He died.

 

  • die (verb 動詞) = pass away (more polite and respectful) = to stop living
  • dead (adjective 形容詞) = no longer alive  

He is/was dead.

He dies/died.

  • dead 死的; 凋謝的 (adjective 形容詞)
    vs deadly (adjective 形容詞) 致命的 (= lethal, fatal)

 

deadly (adverb 副詞) 死一般地

例子：to be deadly quiet   死一般寂靜

 

= deathly (adverb 副詞/ adjective 形容詞)

例子：a deathly silence [literary] (like a dead person)

   
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