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    A ledger is the main record book of money coming in and going out. Traditionally it was a big, heavy, hard-covered book kept in an office, with ruled columns — date, what it was for, money in, money out, balance — filled in by hand in ink. Every business, bank, shop and charity kept one, and it was the official answer to 'where did the money go?' The word survives even though the object has mostly disappeared.

    A ledgerledger is是 the main record book of money coming in and going out記錄金錢進出的主要帳本。 Traditionally傳統上 it was a big, heavy, hard-covered book kept in an office它是放在辦公室裡一本又大又重、硬皮封面的書 with ruled columns裡面畫著一格格的欄位 date, what it was for, money in, money out, balance日期、用途、收入、支出、結餘 filled in by hand in ink都是用墨水手寫填上去的。 Every business, bank, shop and charity每家企業、銀行、店家、慈善機構 kept one都會有一本 and it was the official answer to 'where did the money go?'它就是「錢到哪裡去了?」這個問題的正式答案 The word survives even though the object has mostly disappeared就算這個東西幾乎已經消失,這個字還是留了下來。

    Nearly all accounts now live in software, but accountants still say ledger for the record itself: the general ledger is the complete set of a company's accounts, and 'it's in the ledger' means it has been properly recorded.

    Nearly all accounts now live in software現在幾乎所有帳目都放在軟體裡了 but accountants still say ledger for the record itself但會計還是把這份紀錄本身叫做ledger the general ledger is the complete set of a company's accountsgeneral ledger(總分類帳)是一家公司完整的一套帳目 and 'it's in the ledger' means it has been properly recorded而"it's in the ledger"意思是這件事已經正式記錄下來了。

    The word also got a whole new life from cryptocurrency: a blockchain is usually explained as a 'distributed ledger' — a record book that thousands of computers keep a copy of, so no single person can quietly change a line. That is now one of the commonest places a young person meets the word.

    The word also got a whole new life from cryptocurrency這個字也因為虛擬貨幣有了全新的生命 a blockchain is usually explained as a 'distributed ledger'區塊鏈通常被解釋成"distributed ledger"(分散式帳本) a record book that thousands of computers keep a copy of一種由成千上萬台電腦各自保存副本的帳本 so no single person can quietly change a line所以沒有任何一個人可以偷偷改動裡面的一筆紀錄。 That is now那現在是 one of the commonest places a young person meets the word年輕人最常遇到這個字的地方之一。

    Two smaller uses are worth knowing. In writing about people and history, 'ledger' can stand for cold accounting applied where it does not belong: 'on the ledger of the war, the human cost never appears.' And in phrases like on the wrong side of the ledger, it means simply on the losing or negative side.

    Two smaller uses還有兩個比較小的用法 are worth knowing值得知道。 In writing about people and history在寫人物或歷史的文章裡 'ledger' can stand for cold accounting applied where it does not belong'ledger'可以用來代表把冷冰冰的算帳心態用在不該用的地方 'on the ledger of the war, the human cost never appears.'像"on the ledger of the war, the human cost never appears"(在這場戰爭的帳本上,永遠看不到人命的代價) And in phrases like on the wrong side of the ledger而在像on the wrong side of the ledger這樣的說法裡 it means simply on the losing or negative side單純就是指站在虧損或負面的那一邊。

    There is also an unrelated technical meaning in music — a ledger line is the short extra line drawn above or below the staff for a note that is too high or too low to fit.

    There is also an unrelated technical meaning in music音樂裡還有一個不相關的專業意思 a ledger line is the short extra line drawn above or below the staff for a note that is too high or too low to fitledger line(加線)是畫在五線譜上方或下方,給音符太高或太低放不進去時用的一小段額外的線。

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組成From Middle English legger/ligger, from liggen 'to lie', from Old English licgan 'to lie down, be situated'. The idea is a book so big it stays lying in one place — the book that never leaves the office.

同家族的字

  • liesame Old English licgan 'to lie down' — the ledger is the book that lies in place
  • ledgefrom the same root: something that lies flat, a narrow shelf

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。

Ledgername

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    A surname.

ledgernoun/ˈlɛd͡ʒə/

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    A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.

    • Our ledger has no entry for the human pain caused by war.
    • My eyes kept glancing nervously to a spot on the side table just beyond the ring of light, where the ledgers containing the old church minutes were stacked.
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    A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

    • The firſt Leidger, or Leidger Nº A. being thus finiſh'd, it is requiſite to prepare for the erecting of thy Accounts anew in a Leidger Nº B. or thy ſecond Leidger, which thou ſhalt do thus.
    • That all ſtock bought and ſold, is transferred or poſted from his journal, produced at his examination, into his ſaid leidgers, but the journal doth not contain all the matters concerning monies that are entered in his leidgers; […]
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    businesscryptocurrenciescryptocurrencyA book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

    • To be clear: there's only one ledger, but that ledger is not stored in any one central location. Rather, identical copies exist on every node—a copy on every computer.
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    accountingbusinessfinanceA collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.

    • The Leger exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debit] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. […] Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the Leger. If a mistake be made, let it be corrected by an account in the Day Book, clearly stating the correction, and then let this account be posted in its proper place in the Leger, that no blot or erasure may disfigure its pages.
    • He keeps a ledger or a debtor-and-creditor account between the Government and the Country, posts so much actual crime, corruption, and injustice against so much contingent advantage or sluggish prejudice, and at the bottom of the page brings in the balance of indignation and contempt, where it is due.
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    A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.

    • In Great Britain ledgers that were placed outside of churches are sometimes termed external ledgers, while those placed within churches are called internal ledgers […] Ledgers generally sit directly on the ground or on low supports.
    • They [19th-century headstones] instead normally recorded only the names and birth and death dates of family members buried in a plot over a period of seventy-five years, a century, or even longer. Stones that William Bigham Sr. made in Pennsylvania, especially the ledger stones but even small headstones, often seem intended to provide space for a similar record.
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    businessconstructionmanufacturingA board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

    • [The dome was] turned upon a centre laid without any standard from below to support it. Every story of the scaffolding being circular, and the ends of the ledgers meeting as so many rings, and truly wrought, it supported itself; […]
    • For more secure rooftop decks, a ledger (a joist mounted against the side of the house to support one side of a deck) is attached to the face of the house with perpendicular sleepers (wood planks laid horizontally at wide intervals) aligned with the roof rafters below.

ledgerverb/ˈlɛd͡ʒə/

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    To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.

    • Our tears are bottled, to signify that our griefs are carefully measured; and they are booked, to teach us that they are numbered.—Psal[ms] lvi. 8. Our tears being bottled, and ledgered, will signify that our afflictions are not the effects of change, but the registered dispensations of heaven. Ay, and your enjoyments are by lot.
    • I never saw a man who knew so thoroughly well all that he [Philip Syng Physick] knew. It seemed as if his science and art were ledgered in his brain, so that he could turn on the instant to page and line.
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    fishinghobbieslifestyleTo use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.

    • The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.
    • The flounder spends its life between the tideline and the 25 to 30 fathoms mark, but they are often caught several miles upstream in freshwater rivers by anglers legering worms or gentles.
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    fishinghobbieslifestyleTo engage in bottom fishing.

    • In the fashion pursued by the fishermen who require to cast a long line on the Thames, for ledgering or spinning more particularly, the line is drawn off the reel and laid loosely in coils at the fisherman's feet, […]
    • The best baits for ledgering are, firstly, worms; secondly, greaves; and, thirdly, a bunch of gentles, though some people occasionally catch barbel with raw beef or ham; […]

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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。