- 1破壞者、蓄意破壞者（重大案件或戰爭裡也常說「破壞份子」）
A saboteur is a person who breaks things, spoils a plan, or ruins someone’s work on purpose, so that other people cannot do what they meant to do. The harm is not a accident. In war, a saboteur might cut wires, burn a storehouse, or damage a machine in secret. In ordinary talk, people also stretch the word: a teammate who quietly wrecks a project from the inside, or a worker who wants the company to fail, may get called a saboteur. That looser use is a bit dramatic; newspapers like it. The word feels serious, a little like a spy story. You would not call a messy friend a saboteur unless you really mean they wanted to hurt you.
組成Borrowed from French saboteur. French built it from saboter (to spoil or damage on purpose) + -eur (a person who does that). Sabot is a wooden shoe. People often tell a story that workers threw those shoes into machines to stop them; the story is famous, though scholars do not all agree that this is how the French verb really began.
同家族的字
- sabotagethe act; both come from French saboter
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。
saboteurnoun/ˌsæbəˈtɜː(ɹ)/
- 1
A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
- The condemnation of 'Menshevizing idealists' and mechanists led to a flood of articles and dissertations whose authors echoed the party decrees and vied with one another in expressing indignation at the insidious plots of the philosophical saboteurs.
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。