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To go onto someone's land or property without their permission. Most students will meet this word on 'No Trespassing' signs, warning people to stay off private land. In old-fashioned or religious language, it can also mean 'to do wrong to someone,' as in the line 'forgive us our trespasses.'
侵入(私人土地)
組成tres- (across, from Latin 'trans') + pass (to go) - to pass across or beyond a boundary you shouldn't cross.
同家族的字
- passportshares 'pass', meaning to go or move through
原始詞典資料8 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。
trespassnoun詞源 1/ˈtɹɛspæs/
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lawAn intentional interference with another's property or person.
- External infrastructure issues such as severe weather and trespass caused 17.1% of [train] cancellations, [...].
- Network Rail has produced a free downloadable comic highlighting the consequences of railway trespass. Between March 23 and April 26, there were 1,024 trespass incidents on the railway. [...] it is based on the company's award-winning safety film 18, which shows the dangers of trespass, especially around electrified lines.
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archaicsin
- Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
trespassverb詞源 2/ˈtɹɛspæs/
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archaicTo commit an offence; to sin.
- In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord.
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obsoleteTo offend against, to wrong (someone).
- And forgeve us oure trespases, even as we forgeve them which trespas us.
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To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
- to trespass upon the time or patience of another
- "Indeed I have, sir," was her answer. "She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness."
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lawTo enter someone else's property illegally.
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obsoleteTo pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
- 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce […] trespassed out of this uncertain world.
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lawTo subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
- The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.
- A year ago a sheep-man was allowing his flocks to trespass on another public-domain licensee. At his third offense, after warnings, he was "trespassed" and given a fairly stiff fine and a warning that a fourth offense would cost him his grazing rights.
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。