喜樂美語
  1. 1綁架、擄人（指事件或罪名）

    Abduction is the name of the act: taking someone away by force. News talks about a child abduction, a suspected abduction, an attempted abduction. It is the noun beside the verb . In daily talk, is more common; abduction sounds like a headline or a law book. Though actually, English also borrowed this shape for other jobs you may meet later — a kind of guess in old logic, and a way a limb moves in the doctor's room. Those are not the crime. Alien abduction is the film-and-story idea of being taken by aliens. Keep your eye on the sentence: if it is about a missing person, you are in the crime meaning.

From the word’s history

From Latin abductiō, from abdūcō 'to lead away', from ab 'away' + dūcō 'to lead'.

源自拉丁文 abductiō，來自 abdūcō「帶走」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin abductiō(n), from abdūcere, to lead away: ab- (away) + dūcere (to lead). By the look of the English word, abduct + -ion.

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abductionnoun/əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

  • 1

    A leading away; a carrying away.

  • 2

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

    • Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
  • 3

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsA syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.

    • The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
  • 4

    lawThe wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.

    • the abduction of a child
    • Saturday’s actions – the abduction of [Venezuelan] President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to face federal drug-trafficking charges in the U.S., and the deadly bombings of military installations and some civilian buildings across the country – had “Trump Corollary” written all over them.
  • 5

    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyAn alien abduction.

    • But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.

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