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To gatecrash is to go to a party or event that nobody invited you to — you just show up. It is informal. You can gatecrash a wedding, a concert, a work party. There is also a noun, a gatecrash (the act), though the verb is much more common; the person is a gatecrasher. Though actually you do not need a gate, and you do not need to smash anything: crash here is the old informal sense “burst in”. In some places it is only cheeky; at a private wedding or a paid gig it is rude, and sometimes not allowed.
不請自來；闖派對
組成gate + crash (burst in). Same pieces for the verb and the noun.
同家族的字
- gatecrasherthe person who shows up uninvited
- crashhere: burst in, not a car smash
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。
gatecrashverb/ˈɡeɪtkɹaʃ/
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To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
- “[…] I mean, she doesn’t belong to the Society—“ ”What Society?” ”The Society that was meeting. I think she pushed in for a joke.” ”Gate-crashed you? […]”
- After Walsh was seen being escorted out as he attempted to gatecrash the interview, liberal viewers shared their outrage at Walsh's mocking of their convention.
gatecrashnoun/ˈɡeɪtkɹaʃ/
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An instance of gatecrashing a party, event, etc.
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Part of a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in which the groom and his groomsmen complete several difficult or embarrassing tasks prepared by the bridesmaids to prove his love for the bride.
- We’ve heard of stories of grooms getting nervous before their big day – not because they’re afraid of botching their vows, or welling up in unmanly but happy tears – but because of the tasks that await them during the gatecrashing ceremony.
- For their wedding day, Mr Koh, who's 33 and works in marketing, arrived at his bride's house for the gatecrashing ceremony wearing a Darth Vader mask, while his groomsmen were decked out in Jedi robes.
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。