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    /ˈterərɪzəm/

    The use of violence, such as bombing or attacks, to people and force a government to do something.

    恐怖主義／恐怖活動

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核心畫面

Think of violence used not mainly to destroy, but to plant fear — bombs and attacks meant to ordinary people so much that a government is forced to give in.

可以想成一種「拿暴力來種恐懼」的做法：爆炸、攻擊的重點不只在破壞，而在把一般人嚇到極點，逼政府不得不讓步。

From the word’s history

From Latin terror 'great fear, dread', from terrere 'to frighten'. 'Terrorism' was coined in 1795 for France's Reign of Terror — rule kept in place by fear itself; fear is the whole engine.

源自拉丁文 terror「巨大的恐懼、驚駭」，再往上是 terrere「使人害怕」。terrorism 這個字 1795 年出現，本來指法國大革命的「恐怖統治」——靠恐懼本身撐住的統治；恐懼就是它整台引擎。

etymonline.com/word/terrorism (Latin terror, from terrere 'to frighten'; coined 1795, Reign of Terror)

原始詞典資料4 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。

terrorismnoun/ˈtɛɹəɹɪzəm/

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    historicalThe system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

    • In England I was proscribed for having vindicated the French Revolution, and I have suffered a rigorous imprisonment in France for having pursued a similar mode of conduct. During the reign of terrorism, I was a close prisoner for eight long months, and remained so above three months after the era of the tenth Thermidor.
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    The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

    • The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is "vital to counter terrorism". Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
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    The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

    • We at the GCN Prisoner Project often get letters from prisoners who are being harassed (above and beyond the usual terrorism of the prison business) because of their being queer.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。