- 1圖說（照片上／照片下的說明）。電視畫面上的字，台灣多說字幕；美式英語常把那種也叫 caption。
A caption is the words that sit with a picture to tell you what you are looking at. In a book or newspaper it is usually a short line under the photo — or sometimes above it — saying who is in it, where, and what is happening. On a television screen it can also mean the words that explain the picture, a name, or what is going on. Though actually, everyday talk splits here. For a photo in a magazine, everyone says caption. For words at the bottom of a TV programme, American English often says captions (or closed captions, for people who cannot hear well); British English more often says subtitles. That is why one English word covers what students already split into 圖說 and 字幕. As a verb, to caption a photo is to write those words for it. It is a normal, slightly grown-up word: journalists and designers use it all the time.
組成Borrowed from Latin captiō (“taking, seizure”; also “deception”), from the past participle of capiō, “to take, to seize” — the same Latin verb behind English capture. Middle English had capcioun, “seizure, capture.”
同家族的字
- captureboth go back to Latin capiō, “to take, to seize”
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
captionnoun/ˈkæp.ʃən/
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mediapublishingtypographyThe descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
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A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
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broadcastingcinematographyfilmA piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
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lawThe section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
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obsoletelawA seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
- 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378). The caption and asportation must be felonious.
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A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
captionverb/ˈkæp.ʃən/
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To add captions to a text or illustration.
- Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
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To add captions to a film or broadcast.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。