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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”.
To perpetrate something is to carry out a bad actPerpetrate某件事，是指做出一個壞行為 a crime, a fraud, a cruel trick犯罪、詐騙、殘忍的把戲 The object is the deed, not the person它的受詞是那件壞事，不是那個人： you perpetrate a robbery, you do not “perpetrate someone”你perpetrate一場搶案，但不會說「perpetrate某個人」
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.
It is a formal, heavy verb這是一個正式、沉重的動詞 reports, news, and essays use it more than chat報告、新聞、和論說文比聊天更常用它 People also stretch it, a little dryly, to a mess or a hoax大家也會有點乾乾地拿它來講一團亂或惡作劇： “Who perpetrated this in the kitchen?”「Who perpetrated this in the kitchen?（是誰在廚房幹的好事）」 Even then it still paints the act as something that should not have been done即使這樣用，它還是把那個行為畫成「不應該做的事」
The person who does it is the perpetrator; the doing of it is the .
The person who does it is the perpetrator做這件事的人叫perpetrator（加害者、行為人） the doing of it is the perpetration這件事本身叫perpetration（犯行）
Though actually, the word students trip on is a neighbour, not a relative: perpetuate looks similar but means “make something last”.
Though actually不過其實 the word students trip on is a neighbour, not a relative學生常常搞混的是它的鄰居，不是親戚： perpetuate looks similar but means “make something last”perpetuate看起來很像，但意思是「讓某件事持續下去」
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，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。
perpetrateverb/ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。