喜樂美語

Picture something in motion being brought to a halt and held there — a person walking free, a disease spreading, your eye sweeping across a room. Arrest is that stopping-and-holding. The police sense is the most familiar one, but it is one application of a wider picture: whatever was moving stops right here.

可以想成：一個正在移動的東西被攔下來、按住不動——一個自由行走的人、一場正在擴散的疫情，或是你在房間裡掃過去的目光。arrest 的核心比較像這個「停住並且按住」。警察逮捕是最熟悉的一個用法，但它只是這個大畫面裡的一種情況：本來在動的，到這裡停下來。

From the word’s history

From Old French arester "to stay, stop", from Vulgar Latin arrestare, from ad- "to" + restare "to stop, remain behind" (re- + stare "to stand"). The figurative "catch and hold the attention" sense is recorded from 1814.

來自古法文 arester「停下、留住」，源頭是通俗拉丁文 arrestare，由 ad-「向」加上 restare「停住、留在後面」構成（re- 加 stare「站」）。所以這個字的底層意思是「讓它站住不動」，而「吸引住目光」這個引申用法是 1814 年才記錄到的。知道這一層，就能看出逮捕、遏止、吸引三個意思其實是同一個動作。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/arrest)

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同家族的字

  • 形容詞arresting

v過去式 arrested過去分詞 arrested-ing arresting三單 arrests

n複數 arrests

原始詞典資料14 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。

arrestnoun/əˈɹɛst/

  • 1

    A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

  • 2

    The condition of being stopped, standstill.

    • cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
  • 3

    lawThe process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

    • State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
  • 4

    A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

  • 5

    A device to physically arrest motion.

  • 6

    nauticaltransportThe judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

  • 7

    obsoleteAny seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

    • The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  • 8

    farrieryhobbieshorsesA scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

arrestverb/əˈɹɛst/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).

    • An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
    • Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;
  • 2

    obsoleteTo stay, remain.

    • A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
  • 3

    To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

    • To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  • 4

    To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

    • The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
    • The suspect merchant ship has been arrested by customs officers.
  • 5

    To catch the attention of.

    • There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
  • 6

    medicinesciencesTo undergo cardiac arrest.

    • Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.

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。