- 1闖空門、破門竊盜（侵入住宅行竊）
A break-in is when someone gets into a building by force so they can steal things. The word is a noun, and it is almost always about a crime: a broken window, a forced door, a lock that has been pushed open. You would say 'There was a break-in at the school last night' or 'This is the third break-in on our street this year.' Notice that the noun has a and is stressed on the first part (BREAK-in), while the verb is two separate words: 'Someone broke into my car.' So the same event can be said two ways — 'a break-in happened' or 'someone broke in'. People do use it a little loosely: a break-in usually means force, but if a thief walked in through a door you forgot to lock, the police and the news will still call it a break-in. It normally means a building — a house, a shop, an office. For a car, people more often say 'my car was broken into' than 'a car break-in', though the noun is not wrong. There is also a computer meaning you may meet: getting into someone's system without permission is sometimes called a break-in, though 'hack' is the more common word now. Small note: a completely different 'break in' means to make new shoes or a new machine comfortable by using them — but that one stays two words, and it is not this noun.
這是名詞，指有人用強力闖進建築物偷東西，幾乎都是犯罪事件，例如窗戶被打破、門被撬開。它最常用來指房子、商店或辦公室。例句 「There was a break-in at the school last night」（昨晚學校發生了闖空門事件），就是這樣用的。
名詞寫成連字號，重音在前面。動詞則是兩個字，例如 「Someone broke into my car」（有人闖進我的車子）。同一件事可以用名詞說，也可以用動詞說。指車子時，人們通常說 「my car was broken into」，較少用名詞。電腦上未經允許進入系統，有時也叫做這個字，不過現在更常用 hack。
From the word’s history
A noun formed from the verb break in.
由動詞片語 break in（闖入）變成的名詞。
組成From the verb phrase 'break in' — break (to force something open) + in (to the inside) — turned into a noun. English does this often: you take a two-word verb, push the stress onto the first word, and it becomes a thing that happened.
同家族的字
- breakoutthe same pattern, but out — an escape from the inside
- break-upsame pattern again — a verb phrase turned into a noun for the event
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
break-innoun詞源 1/ˈbɹeɪkˌɪn/
- 1
The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
- There was a break-in at the shop; everything was taken.
break-innoun詞源 2/ˈbɹeɪkˌɪn/
- 1
A novelty record where a question is asked or a comment is raised, and the replies are lyrics from other songs, sampled from the recordings.
- Described by Ken Simpson as a ... novelty record where ‘snippets of current hits’ are inserted into ‘a little melodrama almost set up as a newscast’ (Simpson 2016), the first example of a break-in record that I am aware of is ... The Flying Saucer.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。