核心畫面
Picture pressing a coin, a stamp, or your thumb into something soft like wax or clay: it sinks in and leaves a shaped mark behind. That physical mark — the trace one thing leaves when it presses onto another — is the seed of the whole word. Everything else is that same act of pressing, just moved onto the mind, onto paper, or onto an audience.
可以想成把一枚硬幣、一個印章、或你的拇指按進蠟或黏土這類軟東西裡：它陷下去，留下一個有形狀的印子。這個實際的痕跡——…更多收起
可以想成把一枚硬幣、一個印章、或你的拇指按進蠟或黏土這類軟東西裡：它陷下去，留下一個有形狀的印子。這個實際的痕跡——一個東西壓在另一個東西上所留下的印記——就是整個字的種子。其餘的意思都還是同一個「壓印」動作，只是把它搬到了心裡、搬到紙上、或搬到觀眾面前。原始詞典資料11 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。
impressionnoun/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/
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The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- His head made an impression on the pillow.
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The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- He tried to make a good impression on his parents.
- Their empires, triumphs, conquests, and projects, have left little impression behind them, notwithstanding the attention they once attracted, and the violent convulsions which they caused in the state of the world.
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A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- I have the impression that he's already left for Paris.
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An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another person.
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An outward appearance.
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A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
- Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.
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The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
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artscraftsengravingA print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- Let us, therefore, use a little freedom, and call them Impressions; employing that word in a sense somewhat different from the usual. By the term impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And impressions are distinguished from ideas, which are the less lively perceptions, of which we are conscious, when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.
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mediaprintingpublishingset of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
impressionverb/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/
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To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
- The trick in impressioning a key is to remove only a small amount of the blank, by filing or cutting, from the pin positions where impressions have been left.
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。