核心畫面
Picture many separate people or smaller groups joined so tightly by law that they count as one single 'body' — one entity that can own things, sign contracts, and act as if it were a single person, even though it is really a crowd. A big business, an official organization, a town council: all are this one legal 'body' wearing different clothes.
可以想成一個畫面：許多原本各自獨立的人或小團體，被法律緊緊綁在一起，從此算作「同一個身體」——一個整體能擁有財產、簽…更多收起
可以想成一個畫面：許多原本各自獨立的人或小團體，被法律緊緊綁在一起，從此算作「同一個身體」——一個整體能擁有財產、簽合約、像單獨一個人那樣行動，雖然裡頭其實是一群人。這個字的核心比較像「一群人被法律當成一個法人來看」；不論是大公司、正式組織，還是管理城鎮的議會，都是這同一個「法人身體」換上不同的外衣。原始詞典資料5 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。
corporationnoun/ˌkɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
- With his twin notes, Mr. Musk waded directly into a fractious debate over the right way for corporations to bring workers back to the office during the coronavirus pandemic.
- 2
The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
- 3
historicalIn Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
- 4
datedslangA protruding belly.
- [The Rector], looming large in full canonicals, walking, as became a beneficed priest, under the canopy of a shovel-hat, with the dignity of an ample corporation, the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes.
- 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'
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。