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A machine in a wall that gives you money when you put your card in and type your number — what Taiwan calls an ATM. This is the British word, and it is a small history lesson: Cashpoint was a trademark of Lloyds Bank, who put in their machines in 1972. The name escaped the bank. People started calling every machine a Cashpoint, whichever bank owned it, the way people say Sharpie or 宅急便 for things made by other companies. That is why you sometimes see it with a capital C and sometimes without. In Britain you also hear "cash machine" and "hole in the wall"; Americans say ATM and would not recognise Cashpoint at all. In Taiwan, everyone says ATM, including in Chinese, so this is a word to understand when you hear a British person say it rather than one to use yourself.
提款機、自動櫃員機(台灣一律說 ATM);Cashpoint 是英國說法,源自英國勞埃德銀行的商標。
組成cash + point — a point (a spot, a place) where you get cash. It began as Lloyds Bank's registered trademark in 1972 and became a general word.
同家族的字
- pointthe same word point — a place or spot
- checkpointsame word point — a place where you are checked
原始詞典資料1 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。
cashpointnoun
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bankingbusinessAn automated teller machine.
- Gordon Brown today urged police across England and Wales to offer to walk the last mile home with people who feel unsafe after they visit the cashpoint.
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。