核心畫面
Picture a small painted image that people stand in front of — it is not decoration. The image is there to stand in for something much bigger than itself, and you look at it to reach that bigger thing. Every use of icon keeps that job: a small visible thing carrying something larger behind it.
可以想成一幅擺在那裡讓人面對的小圖像。它不是裝飾——它的工作是「替」某個比自己大得多的東西站在那裡，人看著它，其實是…更多收起
可以想成一幅擺在那裡讓人面對的小圖像。它不是裝飾——它的工作是「替」某個比自己大得多的東西站在那裡，人看著它，其實是要通到後面那個東西。icon 的每一種用法都還帶著這份工作：一個看得見的小東西，身上扛著一個看不見的大東西。（在螢幕上，後面那個東西是一支程式；在文化裡，是一個時代或一種精神。）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。
iconnoun/ˈaɪ.kɒn/
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An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
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ChristianityEastern-ChristianitylifestyleA type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
- Last week the Archdiocese sent emmissaries to investigate the icon and decided that the tears were not a hoax, Father Koufos said.
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A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
- Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
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computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA small picture that represents something.
- Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.
- The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar. It contains 21 icons, each of which allows the user to perform a specified function with but a few clicks of the mouse.
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informalcomputingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA small picture that represents something.
- Is it okay if I use your drawing as my icon?
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
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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。