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Insignia are the badges, marks, or special signs that show rank, or show which group you belong to. Soldiers, police, and clubs use them: stars on a uniform, a school crest, a company pin. The word feels official. You would not call a random sticker insignia unless it is meant as a real mark of belonging. In English it started as a Latin plural, so some careful writers treat it like they. Though actually, most people say an insignia for one badge, and nobody minds.
徽章、階級章、識別標誌
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。
insignianoun/ɪnˈsɪɡ.ni.ə/
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A patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization.
- The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
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A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.
- The former Protector tendered him the oaths, and presented him with the insignia of office, performing the ceremonies of installation.
- The most sacred part of the ceremony followed when the new king was anointed with holy oil to confirm his semi-divine status. He was then invested with the royal insignia: the ring, sword, crown, sceptre and rod. Finally, the newly crowned monarch received the homage of his leading subjects.
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A mark or token by which anything is known.
- But if autumn wear the insignia of nature's royalty, its purple and gold, in only the shaded lane or the green field with its one or two old trees, what is its more than eastern pomp in a wooded empire like the New Forest!
- Rule 23: “The stress of love makes it hard to eat and sleep.” To these empirical laws we can add the various other insignia of love.
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。