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The fine lines on the skin at the end of your finger make a pattern. That pattern — and the mark it leaves on glass, paper, or a scanner — is a fingerprint.
The fine lines on the skin at the end of your finger你指尖皮膚上的細紋 make a pattern會形成一種花紋。 That pattern那種花紋 and the mark it leaves on glass, paper, or a scanner以及它留在玻璃、紙張或掃描機上的痕跡 is a fingerprint就是指紋。
Each person’s pattern is different, which is why the police copy it (with ink, or now more often with a machine) when they want to show that a certain person touched something. The copy in the file is also called a fingerprint.
Each person's pattern is different每個人的花紋都不一樣 which is why所以 when they want to show that a certain person touched something當警察想證明某個人碰過某樣東西時 the police copy it就會把它採集下來 (with ink, or now more often with a machine)（用印泥，現在更常用機器）。 The copy in the file檔案裡的那份副本 is also called a fingerprint也叫做指紋。
You can use it as a verb too: to fingerprint someone is to take those prints.
You can use it as a verb too這個字也可以當動詞用 to fingerprint someone is to take those printsto fingerprint someone（幫某人採指紋）就是採集這些指紋。
People stretch the word a long way: a “fingerprint” can be any unique mark that shows who or what something is (a DNA fingerprint, a chemical fingerprint). The police sense is the one meet first; the stretched sense is common in news and science. It is an ordinary word, not slang, and it does not only belong to criminals — banks, phones, and immigration desks use fingerprints to check who you are.
People stretch the word a long way這個字也被引申得很遠 a "fingerprint" can be any unique mark that shows who or what something is任何能顯示某人或某物身分的獨特痕跡都可以叫做"fingerprint" (a DNA fingerprint, a chemical fingerprint)（像DNA指紋、化學指紋）。 The police sense警察那個意思 is the one learners meet first是學習者最先遇到的 the stretched sense引申的意思 is common in news and science則常見於新聞和科學。 It它 is是 an ordinary word一個普通的字 not slang不是俚語 and it does not only belong to criminals而且不是只跟罪犯有關 banks, phones, and immigration desks銀行、手機、移民關口 use fingerprints to check who you are都會用指紋確認你的身分。
組成finger + print: the end of your finger, plus a mark left by pressing.
同家族的字
- fingerthe body part whose tip leaves the mark
- printa mark left by pressing something onto a surface
- footprintthe same print, “a mark left behind,” but from a foot
- fingerprintingthe work of taking fingerprints and matching them
原始詞典資料7 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。
fingerprintnoun/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
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The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
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The pattern left on a surface where an uncovered fingertip has touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
- Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
- The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.
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A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- acoustic fingerprint
- Most pharmacopoeial monographs of medicinal plants include TLC as method for identification based on a chromatographic fingerprint, which consists of a sequence of characteristic substance zones.
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computingcryptographyengineeringA unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
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A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
- And continue to ask yourself the question, could the incredible complexity of the human body with its multitudinous specialized functions have come into being completely by chance or is it another fingerprint of God?
fingerprintverb/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
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To take somebody's fingerprints.
- The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
- Too often, the union says, farmers feel the police response is inadequate and the sentencing too lenient. It’s a view seemingly shared by one of the latest victims of bee rustling, Norfolk bee keeper Simon Greenwood, who told the Observer that police had taken some photos of the scene, fingerprinted a can and then sent him a letter to say no further action was being taken.
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To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
- Analytical results from this combination of leach tests are tools that allow the investigator to quantify (fingerprint) which geochemical components could be expected in runoff from these piles if they were leached by a cloudburst...
- A significant disadvantage of DNA fingerprinting that excludes conventional methods of population genetic analysis is an absence of genetic interpretation of hybridization fragment origin.
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。