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To countersign is to put your name on a paper that someone else has already signed. Your name is the second stamp of trust: I have seen this, I stand with it, or I say it is real. Banks, schools, governments, and old-fashioned offices use it. It is formal. You do not countersign a birthday card. Though actually the same word can also be a noun in army talk: a special word you must say back, to prove you are not the enemy. That is a different use of the same pieces — a sign given in return — but this entry is the signing of a paper. The second name is not an opposite name; counter- here is 'in return / on the other side of the paper', not 'against'.
副署(台灣公文、憲法裡頭說的就是這個)
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。
countersignnoun
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lawA second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person.
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The response to a sign or signal.
- Only those who give the countersign may enter the Masonic Lodge.
countersignverb
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To sign on the opposite side of (a document).
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To add a second signature to a document, affirming the validity of the signature of another person.
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。