- 1nA2
/tʃek/
a printed piece of paper that you write an amount of money on and sign, and then use instead of cash to pay someone or to give them money.
支票
複數 cheques
核心畫面
Picture a small printed slip of paper: you write a number on it, write who it is for, sign your name, and hand it over. The paper itself is worth nothing — it is an instruction to your bank to move that amount of your money to that person. Paper standing in for cash.
可以想成一張印好的小紙片：你在上面填金額、填收款人、簽上自己的名字，然後交出去。那張紙本身不值錢，它是一道給銀行的指…更多收起
可以想成一張印好的小紙片：你在上面填金額、填收款人、簽上自己的名字，然後交出去。那張紙本身不值錢，它是一道給銀行的指令——請把我戶頭裡這筆錢付給這個人。所以支票是「用紙代替現金」：錢還在銀行，紙先過去。英式拼 cheque，美式拼 check（美式的 check 還兼「帳單、核對」等好幾個意思，cheque 則只做這一件事，範圍乾淨很多）。原始詞典資料3 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。
chequenoun/t͡ʃɛk/
- 1
A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.
- I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
- They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.
- 2
A bill to be paid, particularly in a restaurant.
- I summoned the waiter, paid the cheque, and hurried to leave.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。