token

英 ['t??k(?)n] 美['tok?n]

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復數:?tokens;

token 象征，符號，標志，代金券

來自古英語 tacen,符號，象征，證據，來自 Proto-Germanic*taiknam,符號，標志，來自 PIE*teik, 顯示，展示，詞源同 teach,digit,toe.引申諸相關詞義。

token: token: [OE] A token is etymologically something that ‘shows’ you something. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taiknam, which also produced German zeichen ‘sign’. This in turn was formed from a base *taik- ‘show’, which also produced English teach.
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token (n.): Old English tacen "sign, symbol, evidence" (related to verb t?can "show, explain, teach"), from Proto-Germanic *taiknam (cognates: Old Saxon tekan, Old Norse teikn "zodiac sign, omen, token," Old Frisian tekan, Middle Dutch teken, Dutch teken, Old High German zeihhan, German zeichen, Gothic taikn "sign, token"), from PIE root *deik- "to show" (see teach).

Meaning "coin-like piece of stamped metal" is first recorded 1590s. Older sense of "evidence" is retained in by the same token (mid-15c.), originally "introducing a corroborating circumstance" [OED].
token (adj.): "nominal," 1915, from token (n.). In integration sense, first recorded 1960.

1. You described her as the token woman on the shortlist.: 你把她形容為入圍名單上象征性的女性人選。

2. Don't forget to clip the token and stick it on your card.: 別忘了剪下標志，貼到你的卡上。

3. By the same token , the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.: 正如, 永遠的依存,也是永遠的愛.