核心畫面

A thin strip slipped between the pages of a thick book, holding your place so you can come straight back to it instead of searching from the beginning.

一本厚厚的書攤在桌上,你讀到一半得走了,於是抽一張細長的紙片夾進去,把書闔上。書裡有幾百頁,但那張紙片替你記住了「就更多收起一本厚厚的書攤在桌上,你讀到一半得走了,於是抽一張細長的紙片夾進去,把書闔上。書裡有幾百頁,但那張紙片替你記住了「就是這一頁」。重點不在紙片本身,而在它做的事——在一大片內容裡插一個標記,讓你下次不用從頭翻找,直接回到你離開的位置。這個「插一個記號,好回得去」的動作,就是整個字的支點。

Two branches

夾在書裡的實體書籤

這是核心畫面本身:一張夾在紙本書裡的紙片、皮革或布條。

bookmark, for a book · noun · A2

a thin piece of paper, leather, or cloth that you put between the pages of a book to show the last page you have read.

書籤

網路上的書籤

網頁沒有實體的頁,但同樣有「找不回來」的問題;瀏覽器存下的那個網址,就是插在網海裡的那張紙片。

bookmark, saved web page · noun · B1

a saved address of a page on the Internet, kept in your browser so that you can open that page again without searching for it.

(網頁)書籤

原始詞典資料4 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。

bookmarknoun/ˈbʊkmɑːk/

  • 1

    A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

    • He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsA record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

  • 3

    computingdatabasesengineeringA pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

bookmarkverb/ˈbʊkmɑːk/

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo create a bookmark.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。