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When you frogmarch someone, you make them walk by holding their arms very tightly — pinned to their sides, or twisted behind their back — so they cannot fight or run. Two people often take one arm each and push the person forward. It is a rough, physical way to move someone who does not want to go. Police, security guards, and nightclub staff are the people you hear this about; it is not a gentle word, and families do not use it at the dinner table. English also uses it as a noun: a frogmarch is that kind of forced walk. People sometimes stretch it and say they were frogmarched into a meeting or a choice, meaning they were given no real say — though actually the first meaning is still the body being held, and the stretched use is newspaper colour, not a fully separate sense. The picture behind the word is a frog lying with its legs spread; the held-out arms make the person look a bit like that.
架著走、架走(雙臂被緊扣或反剪押走)
原始詞典資料5 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。
frogmarchverb
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To march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.
- Maybe it happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when no one could work and soldiers frog-marched curfew-breakers through the township streets like criminals.
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To force a person forward against their will.
- The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.
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datedTo carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
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To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.
frogmarchnoun
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The process of frogmarching a person.
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。