hijack
/ˈhaɪdʒæk/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈhaɪdʒæk/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈhī-ˌjak/ (ame, mw) · /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/ (ame, ipa)
hijack — 動詞
- hijackpresent simple I / you / we / they
- hijackshe / she / it
- hijackedpast simple
- hijacking-ing form
1. to seize a plane, bus, ship, or truck while it is travelling, usually by threate
劫持；劫機
以暴力強奪交通工具的控制權
to seize a plane, bus, ship, or truck while it is travelling, usually by threatening the people on board with weapons, so that the attacker can direct the vehicle or use the passengers as leverage.
Two armed men hijacked the Athens-bound flight and ordered the pilot to land in Cairo.
兩名持槍男子劫持了那班飛往雅典的班機，命令機長改降開羅。
transitive: hijack + [vehicle]
Layla watched the news as gunmen hijacked a tourist bus near the old border crossing.
Layla 在新聞上看到武裝份子在舊邊境附近劫持了一輛觀光巴士。
gunmen as subject; bus as object
Pirates hijacked the small cargo ship and held its crew off the Somali coast.
海盜劫持了那艘小型貨船，在索馬利亞外海扣押了船上的船員。
The driver hit a panic button the moment two men tried to hijack the armoured van.
兩名男子才剛動手要劫持那輛運鈔車，駕駛就立刻按下了緊急按鈕。
A lone gunman hijacked the city bus and demanded to be driven straight to the airport.
一名單獨行動的槍手劫持了一輛市區公車，要求司機直接開往機場。
- commandeer
more formal; often used of officials taking a vehicle for emergency use, not always violent.
- seize
broader; works for any object, place, or power, not just moving vehicles.
- skyjack
informal and dated; refers specifically to hijacking aircraft.
- release
to let the vehicle and passengers go after a hijacking.
文法句型
hijack + [vehicle]
用法筆記
Object is almost always a vehicle in motion (plane, bus, ship, train, truck) and the act involves force or threats. Distinguish from sense 2, which is figurative and applies to meetings, ideas, or accounts.
常見錯誤
2. to take over a meeting, conversation, campaign, or system that belongs to other
挾持；主導
把不屬於自己的活動或帳號據為己用
to take over a meeting, conversation, campaign, or system that belongs to other people and steer it toward your own goals — for example, dominating a town hall to push one agenda, or breaking into an email account to send messages from it.
Jiwoo accused two senior members of hijacking the meeting to push their own pet project.
Jiwoo 指控兩位資深成員挾持會議，藉機推動他們自己的私心專案。
hijack + meeting + to push
A small faction tried to hijack the climate march and turn it into an anti-mayor protest.
一小群人試圖挾持那場氣候遊行，把它變成一場反市長的抗議活動。
hijack + [event] + turn it into
Hackers hijacked Antonia's email account and sent fake invoices to every contact in her address book.
駭客盜用了 Antonia 的電子信箱，向她通訊錄裡的每位聯絡人寄出假發票。
Madison felt that her quiet dinner party had been hijacked by an argument about the election.
Madison 覺得她原本安靜的晚餐聚會，整場被一場關於選舉的爭吵硬生生搶走。
Critics say the company hijacked the charity event to advertise its new phone.
批評者認為這家公司挾持了慈善活動，藉機宣傳自家新手機。
- commandeer
formal; often neutral and even authorised, while hijack carries the sense of disrupting other people's plans.
- co-opt
subtler; suggests absorbing someone's cause into yours rather than openly seizing it.
- derail
focuses on stopping a process; hijack adds the idea of redirecting it for your own gain.
文法句型
hijack + [meeting / process / account]
用法筆記
Frequently passive ('be hijacked by'). Object is something that belongs to a group or process, not a physical vehicle. Often paired with a purpose clause beginning with 'to' that names the hijacker's aim.
常見錯誤
hijack — 名詞
- hijacksingular
- hijacksplural
1. a single event in which armed people take over a moving vehicle — most often a p
劫持事件
武裝強奪行進中交通工具的單一事件
a single event in which armed people take over a moving vehicle — most often a plane, bus, or truck — by threatening the people on board.
News of the hijack reached the airport just minutes before the flight was due to land.
劫持事件的消息傳到機場時，那班飛機距離降落只剩幾分鐘。
noun + reached
Eshe remembers the 1985 hijack as the longest week her family ever spent watching television.
Eshe 還記得 1985 年那場劫持事件，是她家人盯著電視最久的一週。
definite the hijack + dated event
Police trained for two years to handle a possible hijack at the new high-speed rail station.
警方花了兩年時間，演練如何處理新高鐵車站可能發生的劫持事件。
Six passengers were treated for shock after the hijack ended peacefully at midnight.
那場劫持事件在午夜和平落幕後，有六名乘客因驚嚇接受治療。
Élise wrote her thesis on the legal questions raised by the 1976 Entebbe hijack.
Élise 的論文題目是 1976 年恩德培劫持事件所引發的法律問題。
- skyjacking
informal and dated; restricted to aircraft.
- carjacking
specifically the seizure of a private car at gunpoint, usually from its driver.
- abduction
broader and people-focused; emphasises the kidnapping aspect rather than the vehicle takeover.
文法句型
a hijack of [vehicle]
用法筆記
Refers to one specific incident. For the general crime or the act in the abstract, English usually prefers the noun 'hijacking'. 'A hijack of a bus' is fine; 'the crime of hijack' would normally be 'the crime of hijacking'.