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    An ambush is a sudden attack by people who have been hiding and waiting, or the place where they wait. You can also ambush someone — hide, wait, then strike. Soldiers, hunters, and police use the word in its strict sense. In ordinary talk people stretch it: a crowd of reporters can ambush a politician with questions, and a friend can ambush you with a surprise party. The core picture stays the same: someone was waiting out of sight. It came from an old French idea of hiding in the woods. Why English changed the old en- to am- is not clearly explained.

    埋伏；伏擊（埋伏偏「躲著等」，伏擊偏「突然打出來」；英文兩個都算）

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組成From Old French enbuscier / anbuchier, from en- + Vulgar Latin boscus (wood), from a Germanic word for bush. The later change from en- to am- is unexplained.

同家族的字

  • ambuscadean older or more literary word for the same kind of hidden attack
  • bushshares the old wood/bush root this word was built from

原始詞典資料7 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。

ambushnoun/ˈæm.bʊʃ/

  • 1

    The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.

  • 2

    An attack launched from a concealed position.

    • Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege / Or ambush from the deep.
  • 3

    The concealed position or state from which a surprise attack is launched.

    • the Georgean hills, Whoſe tops are couered with Tartarian theeues, That lie in ambuſh, waiting for a pray:
    • Therefore, why not wait in ambush for Conrad behind the door, and when he entered bring down a chair, or one of the decrepit pictures, smartly on to his head.
  • 4

    The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.

    • And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand: and they entred into the city, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.
  • 5

    A group of tigers.

    • “Having Chris Palmer part of this ambush of tigers is so exciting. He brings the experience and creative juices, but most of all, the passion and fun we all love about this job,” says Braun.
    • He outwits a positive ambush of tigers who want to eat him up and take his beautiful new clothes

ambushverb/ˈæm.bʊʃ/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

    • By ambuſh’d men, behind their Temple laid, / VVe have the King of Mexico betray’d.
  • 2

    To attack by ambush; to waylay.

    • The contrast with the start was profound. In the opening 40 minutes Löw’s team had been ambushed here, the world champions run into a state of breathless trauma by a thrillingly vibrant Mexico attack.

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。