核心畫面
Think of it as a slip of paper that says 'you are allowed'. Something is normally closed off — driving, selling alcohol, keeping a dog — and this piece of paper opens the gate for you, for a set time, and only for you. From that picture the word stretches: first to permission written into a business contract, then to permission with no paper at all, just the freedom someone has handed you to decide for yourself.
可以想成一張寫著「你被允許了」的紙。有些事情本來是關著的門——開車、賣酒、養狗——而這張紙替你把門打開，有期限，而且…更多收起
可以想成一張寫著「你被允許了」的紙。有些事情本來是關著的門——開車、賣酒、養狗——而這張紙替你把門打開，有期限，而且只對你有效。從這個畫面出發，這個字往外長：先長到白紙黑字的商業授權，再長到根本沒有紙、只剩下別人交給你的那份「你自己決定就好」的自由。原始詞典資料2 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。
licencenoun/ˈlaɪ.səns/
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UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.
- In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.
- Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。