terrorist

• n. 恐怖主義者，恐怖分子

來自 terror,恐懼，驚恐，-ist,人。

terrorist (n.)

in the modern sense, 1944, especially in reference to Jewish tactics against the British in Palestine -- earlier it was used of extremist revolutionaries in Russia who attempted to demoralize the government by terror (1866); and Jacobins during the French Revolution (1795) -- from French terroriste; see terror + -ist (also see terrorism).

The term now usually refers to a member of a clandestine or expatriate organization aiming to coerce an established government by acts of violence against it or its subjects. [OED]

The tendency of one party's terrorist to be another's guerilla or freedom fighter was noted in reference to the British action in Cyprus (1956) and the war in Rhodesia (1973). The word terrorist has been applied, at least retroactively, to the Maquis resistance in occupied France in World War II (as in in the "Spectator," Oct. 20, 1979).

1. One American was killed and three were wounded in terrorist attacks.

在幾起恐怖襲擊中，一名美國人遇難，三人受傷。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The investigation is being handled by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch.

調查由倫敦警察廳反恐部門負責。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Two soldiers were killed in a terrorist ambush.

兩名士兵遭到恐怖分子伏擊而死亡。

來自《權威詞典》

4. Terrorist attacks were threatening to destabilize the government.

恐怖襲擊威脅著政府的穩定。

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5. All terrorist crime is detestable, whoever the victims.

無論受害者是誰，一切恐怖主義罪行都是可憎的。

來自《權威詞典》