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将其带走的事件。
Under that authoritarian regime, people lived in fear of the knock at the door in the middle of the night, followed by their abduction.
在那个威权政权下，人们生活在对半夜敲门声的恐惧中，担心随后会被绑架。
The journalist feared the knock at the door after exposing government corruption.
这位记者揭露政府腐败后，一直害怕会有人来敲门。
During the martial law period, many lived in fear of the knock at the door for trumped-up charges.
在戒严时期，许多人生活在对敲门声的恐惧中，担心会被以莫须有的罪名逮捕。