喜樂美語

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。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, "hijacking"

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同家族的字

hijackings

意思相近

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原始詞典資料3 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。

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：

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。