Definition
An instance of law enforcement or military personnel arriving at a person's residence to take them into custody.
指警察或士兵到某人家中將其帶走的事件。
Under that authoritarian regime, people lived in fear of the knock at the door in the middle of the night, followed by their abduction.
在那個威權政權下，人們生活在對半夜敲門聲的恐懼中，擔心隨後會被綁架。
The journalist feared the knock at the door after exposing government corruption.
這位記者揭露政府腐敗後，一直害怕會有人來敲門。
During the martial law period, many lived in fear of the knock at the door for trumped-up charges.
在戒嚴時期，許多人生活在對敲門聲的恐懼中，擔心會被以莫須有的罪名逮捕。