- 1犯下、作（案）（受詞是那件壞事，不是那個人）
To perpetrate something is to carry out a bad act — a crime, a fraud, a cruel trick. The object is the deed, not the person: you perpetrate a robbery, you do not “perpetrate someone”. It is a formal, heavy verb; reports, news, and essays use it more than chat. People also stretch it, a little , to a mess or a hoax: “Who perpetrated this in the kitchen?” Even then it still paints the act as something that should not have been done. The person who does it is the perpetrator; the doing of it is the . Though actually, the word students trip on is a neighbour, not a relative: perpetuate looks similar but means “make something last”.
組成From Latin perpetrāre, “to carry through”, via the past form perpetrātus. English took it in through Middle English perpetrat.
同家族的字
- perpetratorthe person who carries the bad act out
- perpetrationthe noun: the doing of the bad act
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。
perpetrateverb/ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/
- 1
To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
- perpetrate a murder
- What Polina is good for is to fall head over ears in love. That is MY opinion. Look at her—especially when she is sitting alone, and plunged in thought. All this was pre-ordained and foretold, and is accursed. Polina could perpetrate any mad act. She—she—But who called me by name?" I broke off.
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。