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.
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。
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原始詞典資料7 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。
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：
- Trojan-horse
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。