| 单词 | intruder |
| 释义 | intruder (once / 998 pages) n An intruder is someone who enters a place or situation despite not being invited. If a Girl Scout comes to your door to sell you cookies but ends up trying to watch TV with you, you can call her an intruder. Some intruders are robbers who break into homes or businesses with the intent to steal things: "The intruder was charged with trespassing, and later was found to have stolen some jewelry and cash." Other intruders might instead invade someone's privacy. Intruder comes from the verb intrude, from the Latin root intrudere, "to thrust in," a combination of in- and trudere, "to thrust or to push." WORD FAMILYintruder: intruders+/intrude: intruded, intruder, intrudes, intruding, intrusion, intrusive/intrusion: intrusions/intrusive: intrusively, intrusiveness, unintrusive/unintrusive: unintrusively USAGE EXAMPLESAs they entered, the homeowner inside fired, thinking the firefighters were intruders. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) In an email to customers Topps wrote that on 12 October "one or more intruders gained unauthorised access" to its systems. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Sentries at Faslane naval base were ordered to shoot suspected intruders after three people broke into a nuclear submarine, cabinet papers show. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) n someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission Syn|Hypo|Hyper interloper, trespasser boarder someone who forces their way aboard ship crasher, gatecrasher, unwelcome guestsomeone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying infiltratoran intruder (as troops) with hostile intent encroacher, invadersomeone who enters by force in order to conquer penetratoran intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance) prowler, sneak, stalkersomeone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions pusher, thrusterone who intrudes or pushes himself forward squattersomeone who settles on land without right or title alien, stranger, unknownanyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found foreigner, outsidersomeone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group persona non grata, unwelcome person a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome entrantsomeone who enters |
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