核心畫面

You can picture invade as a line being crossed from the outside: something that belongs out there comes in here, in force and without being asked. The classic picture is an army pouring over a border — but what makes it invade is not the soldiers, it is the uninvited crossing into space that was somebody else's.

一條界線被人從外面跨進來:本來在外頭的東西,成群地、帶著壓力地進到「這一邊」,而且沒有經過裡面的人同意。最典型的畫面更多收起一條界線被人從外面跨進來:本來在外頭的東西,成群地、帶著壓力地進到「這一邊」,而且沒有經過裡面的人同意。最典型的畫面當然是軍隊越過國界開進來,但真正讓一個動作變成 invade 的,不是有沒有士兵,而是「不請自來地跨進別人的地盤」這件事。也因為這樣,這個字後面接的受詞永遠是那個「被進入的地方」——被侵入的一方是承受者,主詞是那個硬闖進來的。

Three branches

軍隊越界進攻

這一支就是核心畫面本身,界線是國界,跨進來的是軍隊。

enter by military force · verb · B2

To enter a country, town, or area with an army, using force, in order to take control of it.

入侵;侵略

人潮湧進場所

把「軍隊」換成「人群」,界線從國界縮成一家店、一座小鎮的門口,動作的形狀完全一樣。

flood into a place · verb · B2

To go into a place in large numbers, especially when the people there do not want you.

湧入;擠爆

闖進私人領域

界線再往內縮一層,從看得見的地理邊界變成看不見的個人邊界。

intrude on privacy · verb · B2

To get involved in something private or personal that belongs to someone else, in a way they do not want and that annoys them.

侵犯(隱私、私事)

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。

invadeverb/ɪnˈveɪd/

  • 1

    To move into.

    • Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
    • Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.
  • 2

    To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.

    • Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
    • After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.
  • 3

    To infest or overrun.

    • The picnic was invaded by ants.
  • 4

    To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.

    • The king invaded the rights of the people.
    • There are only two ways to remedy the mute-swan situation: Pay people to locate nests and addle their eggs (addling means shaking each egg hard to kill the embryo inside; if you smash the eggs, the birds will lay replacements, but swans will sit on addled eggs and not lay more), or authorized licensed hunters to shoot the birds. Addling is not only time consuming and expensive, but it's also dangerous because swans regard people who invade their nesting territory as just a larger kind of raccoon.
  • 5

    To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.

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