隨主件一起送出的東西
把「扣上去」用在文件上：本體是信或合約，另一份東西跟著它一起走，所以它永遠是附屬的那一份。
attachment, email file · noun · B2
A file or document that is sent together with an email.
附件
核心畫面
Picture one thing onto another so that the two now travel together: the join itself, or the piece that does the joining. Everything the word does is that same , moved somewhere else — onto a machine, onto an email, onto a contract, onto a person's heart, or onto someone's by order of a court.
可以想成：一樣東西被扣在另一樣上面，從此兩者一起移動——這個字可以指那個接合本身，也可以指負責接住的那個部件。它所有…更多收起
可以想成：一樣東西被扣在另一樣上面，從此兩者一起移動——這個字可以指那個接合本身，也可以指負責接住的那個部件。它所有的用法都是同一個「扣上去」換了地方：扣在機器上、扣在電子郵件上、扣在合約上、扣在一個人的心上，或者由法院下令扣在某人的薪水上。From the picture
心上的牽繫
把扣環從物品移到心裡：你跟某個人、某隻動物或某個想法被繫在一起，繫得夠緊，分開就會難受。
attachment, emotional bond · noun · B2
A strong feeling of love or liking for a person, an animal, or a thing, so that you would be unhappy without them.
情感連結；依戀
人暫時被掛到別的單位
這次被扣上去的是人：你的本職還在原單位，只是暫時掛到另一個地方去，期滿再回來。
attachment, temporary posting · noun · B2
Working for another office, school, or organization for a short time, before going back to your usual one.
借調；短期外派
法律上把錢扣住
同樣是扣上去，只是動手的是法院、被扣住的是錢：薪水還沒到你手上，就有一部分被綁去還債。
attachment, wage garnishment · noun · B2
A court decision that lets part of the money someone earns be used to pay back money they owe.
扣押（薪資）
Also in this word
attachment, fixing, fitting · noun · B2
The act of fixing one thing to another, or the part that holds the two things together.
固定；接合處
attachment, machine part · noun · B2
An extra part that you can put onto a machine or tool so that it can do a different job.
配件；接頭
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
attachmentnoun/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/
- 1
The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
- 2
A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
- 3
A dependence, especially a strong one.
- Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
- 4
A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]
- 5
The means by which something is physically attached.
- [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
- 6
computingengineeringmathematicsA file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- 7
lawTaking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- attachment of earnings
- 8
climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesThe act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。