- 1叛亂、武裝起事（法律／新聞用語，比「抗議」「示威」重；「起義」在台灣常帶正面色彩，這個詞通常沒有）
When people inside a country try to take power by force — fighting, weapons, seizing a government building — that attempt is an insurrection. It is not a noisy protest, and it is not a war with another country. The danger comes from inside. This is a serious, formal word. Judges, newspapers, and history books use it. Everyday talk might say uprising, revolt, or rebellion; those sit nearby, but they are not perfect copies. A rebellion can go on for years. An uprising can sound like ordinary people standing up, and some listeners hear a little sympathy in it. Insurrection sounds colder, more like a crime against the state. People also stretch it. One side may call a riot an insurrection to make it sound like a war on the government. The other side may refuse the word for the same night in the street. So the tidy picture is “a violent grab for power from inside,” but in real talk choosing this word is already taking a side.
From the word’s history
From Latin īnsurrēctiō, from īnsurgō 'to rise up': in- + surgō 'to rise'.
源自拉丁文 īnsurgō「起來」：in-「向內」＋surgō「站起」，即起事。
組成From Late Middle English, via French, from Latin īnsurrēctiō, “a rising up.” Built from in- (“in, inside”) + surgō (“to rise, get up”); surgō itself is sub- (“from under”) + a root for steering (regō). The picture is people rising up from inside.
同家族的字
- insurgenta person who rises up this way; same Latin verb īnsurgō
- surgesame Latin surgō, “to rise”
- resurrectionrising again; same Latin “rise” root
原始詞典資料1 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。
insurrectionnoun/ˌɪnsəˈɹɛkʃn̩/
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The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.
- No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. (1866, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 3)
- After this, by the great wiſedome and politic of the Nobles and Captaynes, a communication was had, and an agreement made vppon the Kings pardon, obtayned for all the Captaynes and chiefe doers in this inſurrection, and promiſe made that they ſhoulde bee gentlye heard, to declare ſuch things as they found themſelues agreeued with, […]
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。