核心畫面

One way to hold hijacking: something is already moving, under someone else's control, and a stranger takes the wheel. A plane is in the air with its crew flying it. A is on the road with its load inside. Both are going somewhere, and both have someone in charge. Hijacking names the moment that control changes hands without agreement, and the -ing ending turns that moment into a thing you can count, report and make laws about. Once you can see the picture without the vehicle, the rest of the word opens up: a meeting, a campaign, a signal or an account can all be moving along under someone's hand, and can all be taken over the same way.

hijacking 可以想成這樣一個畫面:有一樣東西本來就在往前走,而且有人在掌控它,結果一個外人把方向盤搶了過去。更多收起hijacking 可以想成這樣一個畫面:有一樣東西本來就在往前走,而且有人在掌控它,結果一個外人把方向盤搶了過去。飛機在空中,機組人員在開。貨車在路上,貨在車裡。兩者都在前往某處,也都有人負責。hijacking 指的就是控制權在沒有同意的情況下換手的那一刻,而 -ing 把那一刻變成一件可以計算、可以報導、可以立法處理的事。一旦這個畫面不再需要交通工具,這個字就打開了:會議、活動、訊號、帳號,都同樣是在某個人手上往前走的東西,也都可能被同樣的方式接管。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the word as hijack plus -ing, the ending that turns the action into the thing itself.

維基詞典說這個字是 hijack 加上 -ing,而 -ing 正是把一個動作變成一件事物的字尾。

Wiktionary entry 'hijacking' (noun), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1151240789

Two branches

在路上或空中被奪走控制權

這一族最貼近原始畫面:被接管的是一個正在移動的交通工具,差別只在對方要的是什麼。

noun · B2

The crime of taking control of a plane in flight by using force or by threatening the people on board. It can name the crime in general, or one single event of it.

劫機

把別人正在進行的事接管過去

把交通工具從畫面裡拿掉,只留下「有人在掌控、有東西在往前走」這兩件事,這個字就能用在會議、活動、訊號和帳號上。

noun · C1

The act of taking control of something that someone else owns or is running, without their agreement: a vehicle or a load, and also a meeting, a campaign, a radio signal or an online account.

劫持/強行接管

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。

hijackingnoun/ˈhaɪˌdʒæ.kɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).

  • 2

    The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.

    • The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。