喜樂美語
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    A catchword is a short word or phrase that names the one feature you are supposed to notice — in a product, a plan, or a situation. A bottle might carry “no sugar” as the catchword; a campaign might keep repeating “change.” The word is meant to catch your attention and stand for the important point. Though actually, people also use it more loosely for any slogan or fashionable word going around, even when it does not name a real feature. It is a slightly word. In everyday talk you will hear slogan, , or more often. Catchword sits closest to “the word that sells the key point.”

    口號；標語（點出某項特點的那個詞）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成catch（抓住、讓人注意到）+ word（詞）。合起來就是「會抓住人的那個詞」。

同家族的字

  • catchthe first piece: to grab, here to grab attention
  • catchysame catch: a catchy line sticks, as a catchword is meant to

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。

catchwordnoun/ˈkat͡ʃwɜːd/

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    historicalmediaprintingpublishingA word at the end of a book page that repeats the first word from the following page. (Such words served as aids to the bookbinder (to check rapidly for correct placement of leaves) and were also viewed by some readers as aids to smooth reading.)

    • While he prayed he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath from a thumb blackened prayerbook wherein catchwords were printed at the foot of every page.
    • Near-synonym: custos
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    A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a particular group or time; a slogan or buzzword.

    • One could give a long list of such intellectual fashions and catchwords which in the course of two or three generations have in turn dominated the thinking of the intellectual.
    • The war itself has several names, including "the famine war" (ḥarb al-majā'a) and seferberlik, a Turkish word, meaning "travel by land," that began its wartime career as a reference to "military conscription" but quickly became a catchword for all the calamities and suffering experienced by civilians.
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterThe last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker.

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    A word printed (often in large or bold type) at the head of a page or other section of text, serving to draw a reader's attention or summarise contents, especially in a reference work; a heading.

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。