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An autograph is a person's signature, especially a famous person's, given as a souvenir or - fans often ask celebrities, athletes, or authors "can I have your autograph?" As a verb, "to autograph" something means to sign it for someone, like a book or a photo. It's a little different from a plain "signature": a signature is any time you sign your name, like on a form, but an autograph is specifically a signature from someone people admire.
親筆簽名
組成"auto-" (self) + "graph" (write, from Greek graphein) - literally "self-written."
同家族的字
- graphboth share '-graph', from the Greek word for 'write'
- photographboth share '-graph', from the Greek word for 'write/record'
原始詞典資料7 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。
autographnoun/ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/
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A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
- Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.
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A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval.
- If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…
- For me, identifying an autograph is one of the most exciting aspects of collecting. I enjoy the detective work that comes with discerning a fake from the real deal, and subsequently valuing the item against other examples.
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A manuscript in the author’s handwriting; a handwritten copy.
- An autograph of this text, made by E. Weidner, will be reproduced as plate XVII.
autographadj/ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/
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Written in the author’s own handwriting.
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artartsMade by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
- Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.
- Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
autographverb/ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/
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To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc.
- Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money for an underprivileged community.
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To write something in one's own handwriting.
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。