喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a gate opening from the inside. The thing outside looks like a gift, so the people guarding the gate pull it in themselves, laughing. What is inside the gift was never shown to them, and it only comes out once the gate is shut again. Nothing is broken open; the door is opened by the people it will hurt.

可以想成一扇城門從裡面被打開。門外那個東西看起來是一份禮物，所以守門的人自己笑著把它拉進來。禮物裡面裝了什麼，從來沒…更多收起可以想成一扇城門從裡面被打開。門外那個東西看起來是一份禮物，所以守門的人自己笑著把它拉進來。禮物裡面裝了什麼，從來沒給他們看，而且要等到門重新關上才出來。整個畫面最關鍵的一點不是「騙」，是「開門的人就是後來受害的人」——沒有人破門，是自己請進來的。這個畫面一路帶著走，就能同時解釋政治上的木馬和電腦裡的木馬。

From the word’s history

The name comes straight from the Trojan War story that LDOCE gives as sense 1: Greek soldiers hid in a large wooden horse, and the Trojans took it into the city as a gift.

這個名字直接來自特洛伊戰爭的故事（即 LDOCE 的第一個義項）：希臘士兵藏在一匹大木馬裡，特洛伊人把它當成禮物拉進城，夜裡士兵才出來。

LDOCE entry supplied in packet, sense 1 (the Trojan Horse)

Two branches

故事裡的那匹木馬

這一家就是畫面本身，後面兩個意思都從這裡長出來。

noun · B2

In an old Greek story, the huge wooden horse that Greek soldiers hid inside during the Trojan War. The Trojans thought it was a gift and pulled it into their city, and the hidden soldiers came out and took the city.

特洛伊木馬（故事裡的那匹）

披著好意被請進來的東西

把木馬從城門移到別的地方：移到合約和法案上，就是 0_2；移到電腦裡，就是 cand1。共通點都是「你自己讓它進來的」。

noun · B2

A person or thing that people accept and let in because it looks good, safe or helpful, but that is really there to cause harm or to bring in something they would have said no to.

包著好意混進來的東西

原始詞典資料7 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。

Trojan horsename

  • 1

    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks allegedly gained access to Troy during the Trojan War.

Trojan horsenoun

  • 1

    A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.

  • 2

    A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.

    • Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time.
  • 3

    businessA seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.

  • 4

    governmentpoliticsA person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.

    • Russia thinks of an atomic authority as a Trojan horse to get behind the iron curtain and impair her defense, and there is some reason historically for this view.
    • Seen like this, huge western companies function like a Trojan horse when they are invited inside the boundaries of LDCs.

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。