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/əˈkjuːz/
To say that you believe someone is guilty of a crime, or that they have done something bad or wrong.
指控；指責
過去式 accused過去分詞 accused-ing accusing三單 accuses
核心畫面
A finger pointed at someone, saying they did the wrong thing — a claim made, not yet a fact proved.
一根指過去的手指：有人開口，把某件壞事、某個過錯掛到另一個人身上——「是你做的」。重點在於這只是「說」，還不是「證明…更多收起
一根指過去的手指：有人開口，把某件壞事、某個過錯掛到另一個人身上——「是你做的」。重點在於這只是「說」，還不是「證明」：手指指出去的那一刻，事情有沒有真的是那個人做的還沒有定論，被指的人可能承認，也可能否認。所以 accuse 講的是這個指控的動作本身，不是最後的判決。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
accuseverb/əˈkjuːz/
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To find fault with, blame, censure.
- […] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.
- 2
lawTo charge with having committed a crime or offence.
- For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
- 3
To make an accusation against someone.
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
accusenoun/əˈkjuːz/
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obsoleteAccusation.
- And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。