拿得出來的那一疊文件
指結果：已經存在、可以遞給對方看的那些紙本或檔案。
supporting documents · noun · B1
official papers or reports that are used to show that a claim or statement is true or correct.
證明文件
核心畫面
You can picture documentation as things put down on paper so they can be checked later: not what someone remembers or says, but a written or filmed record that stays put and can be shown to another person. The word covers both the pile of records itself and the work of building that pile.
可以想成 documentation 是「白紙黑字留下來的那一疊」：不是誰記得、誰說過，而是寫下來、拍下來、之後可以…更多收起
可以想成 documentation 是「白紙黑字留下來的那一疊」：不是誰記得、誰說過，而是寫下來、拍下來、之後可以拿出來給別人看的東西。這個字有兩面——有時候指那一疊東西本身，有時候指把東西留下來的這個動作。Two branches
把事情記錄下來的動作
指過程：那一疊文件是怎麼來的。英文的 -tion 常常同時裝得下「做這件事」和「做出來的東西」，documentation 就是這種字。
record-keeping · noun · B2
the act of writing down information, or recording it on film or in another way, so there is a clear record.
記錄；記載
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。
documentationnoun詞源 1/ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/
- 1
rareSomething transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
- 2
rareDocumentary evidence and sources.
- 3
rarecomputingengineeringmathematicsDocuments that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
- 4
rarecomputingengineeringmathematicsComments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.
documentationnoun詞源 2/ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/
- 1
A documentary.
- Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.
- Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm.
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。