perpetrate
verb /ˈpɜːpətreɪt/
/ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/
(formal)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they perpetrate | /ˈpɜːpətreɪt/ /ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/ |
| he / she / it perpetrates | /ˈpɜːpətreɪts/ /ˈpɜːrpətreɪts/ |
| past simple perpetrated | /ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪd/ /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle perpetrated | /ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪd/ /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form perpetrating | /ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪŋ/ |
- to commit a crime or do something wrong or evil
犯（罪）；做（错事）；干（坏事） - perpetrate something to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre
犯罪；行骗；进行屠杀 - security breaches perpetrated by people working for the company
为公司工作的人犯下的安全违规行为 - perpetrate something against/upon/on somebody violence perpetrated against women and children
针对妇女和儿童的暴力行为
Topics Crime and punishmentc2- They believed that a crime had been perpetrated against them.
他们认为有人对他们犯了罪。 - They were victims of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession.
他们是欺诈行为的受害者，这些欺诈行为是针对那些寻求现金帮助他们渡过经济衰退的公司的。 - We will not tolerate violence perpetrated against women and children.
我们不会容忍针对妇女和儿童的暴力行为。
Collocations DictionaryPerpetrate is used with these nouns as the object:- act
- atrocity
- crime
- …
词源mid 16th cent.: from Latin perpetrat- ‘performed’, from the verb perpetrare, from per- ‘to completion’ + patrare ‘bring about’. In Latin the act perpetrated might be good or bad; in English the verb was first used in the statutes referring to crime, which led to the negative association. - perpetrate something to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre