Old English Troian "of or pertaining to ancient Troy," from Latin Trojanus, from Troia, Troja "Troy," from the Greek name for the city, said to be from Tros, name of a king of Phrygia, the mythical founder of Troy. Trojan horse was figurative of ambush-from-within in Roman times (equus Troianus); attested in English from 1570s; the computer virus sense is attested by 1982.
As a noun from mid-14c., "inhabitant of ancient Troy;" in early modern English, the noun could mean "a determined fellow, one who fights or works hard," from the Trojans' long resistance to the Greeks in the Trojan War, but also in 17c., it was a colloquial term for "person of dissolute life, carousing companion." The trade name for a brand of prophylactic contraceptive was registered 1927 in U.S.
雙語例句
1. Operating systems can be brought to a halt by a Trojan Horse.
操作系統可能會因為木馬病毒的攻擊而中止。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Was Colombo the emissary of Pope Paul, his Trojan horse within the Commission?
科隆博是教皇保羅的特使嗎？是他在委員會內部設下的臥底嗎？
來自柯林斯例句
3. Both factions accused each other of using the organization as a Trojan horse to advance their causes.
兩派都相互指責對方利用該組織作幌子以發展各自的事業。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The DPP portrays the pact as a Trojan horse.
民進黨將經濟合作協議描述為木馬屠城計.
來自互聯網
5. Trojan horse kill switch may already have been used.