- 1挪用公款；監守自盜
To embezzle is to steal money from the place where you work, quietly, by using your job. It is not grabbing a wallet in the street. It is taking money you were trusted to look after — a company’s funds, a club’s savings, a client’s account — and keeping it as if it were yours. People in offices, banks, shops, and government jobs get accused of this. It is a crime. The word is formal: news, courts, and serious talk. You would not say a child embezzled a . The hurt sits in the broken trust as much as in the missing money. The person who does it is an ; the crime is embezzlement.
core核心畫面
組成em- + an old French verb besillier (“to torment, destroy”), whose further origin is unknown. The word came through Anglo-Norman with the sense “to steal, to make something disappear.”
同家族的字
- embezzlementthe noun: the crime of doing this
- embezzlerthe person who does it
原始詞典資料1 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。
embezzleverb/ɪmˈbɛz.əl/
- 1
businesslawTo steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
- You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
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。