在窗外看的人
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peeping Tom · noun
Someone who gets sexual pleasure from secretly watching other people at private, sexual moments.
偷窺者
You can picture someone standing outside in the dark, looking in through a window. The people inside do not know and have not agreed; the is safe, stays outside, and takes something from looking. Both meanings of the word keep that same figure at the window — what changes is what is going on inside.
可以想成一個人站在外面的暗處，透過窗子往裡看。裡面的人不知道，也沒有答應。看的人自己是安全的，就待在外面，而且從「看」這件事裡拿到了什麼。這個字的兩個意思，都留著窗邊那個人影。會變的只有一件事：窗子裡面正在發生什麼。
From the word’s history
Borrowed from French voyeur, from voir 'to see' — literally 'one who looks'. English keeps the 'looking' and adds the secrecy through use.
borrowed 自法文 voyeur，來自 voir（看），字面就是「看的人」。「偷偷地」這一層不在字面裡，是英文在使用中把它加上去的。
Wiktionary, "voyeur"
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