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Entrapment is the noun: the practice of trapping someone by tricking them.
Entrapment is the noun: the practice of trapping someone by tricking them entrapment 是名詞,指的是用詭計設陷阱讓人上鉤的行為。
Its serious home is the law. In court, a person may say the police (or someone working with them) did not wait for a crime to happen — they pushed, , or fooled the person into doing it, so they could then show that person was guilty. If a judge agrees it was entrapment, the case can fall apart, because the crime was in a sense made by the people who were supposed to catch it.
Its serious home is the law它最正式的用場是在法律上。In court在法庭上, a person may say the police (or someone working with them) did not wait for a crime to happen一個人可能會說警方(或跟警方合作的人)沒有等犯罪真的發生 — they pushed, tempted, or fooled the person into doing it而是推、誘、騙這個人去做這件事, so they could then show that person was guilty好讓他們之後可以證明這個人有罪。If a judge agrees it was entrapment如果法官同意這是 entrapment, the case can fall apart案子可能就會不成立, because the crime was in a sense made by the people who were supposed to catch it因為這個罪某種程度上是本該抓犯罪的人自己造出來的。
Outside the courtroom, people still stretch the word for any “you set me up” feeling, but that looser use is not what lawyers mean. It is a formal, news-and-law word.
Outside the courtroom在法庭之外, people still stretch the word for any "you set me up" feeling人們還是會把這個字用得比較廣,只要有「你設計我」的感覺就用, but that looser use is not what lawyers mean但這種寬鬆的用法不是律師講的意思。It is a formal, news-and-law word這是個正式、常出現在新聞跟法律裡的詞。
原始詞典資料3 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。
entrapmentnoun/ɪnˈtɹæpmənt/
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The state of being entrapped.
- The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.
- Bowen talked of the entrapment of parenting, the anxiety that makes some women feel they are never free again: "We're forever waiting for the other shoe to drop, all the while trying to have a life."
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lawAction by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
- A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment.
- That’s right, Thailand actually has a buffoonish crown prince. And I understand why the Thai people are upset, because they have a law where you can get 15 years in jail for insulting the monarchy, and yet, they have a prince who featured in, and this is true, a video of a birthday party he threw for his dog, a miniature poodle called Foo Foo, in which his topless wife served the dog birthday cake. And you’re telling me they’re not supposed to make fun of that? That’s entrapment! That’s not fair! You asked too much!
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
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。