名冊上的那群人與那個數字
從「我在名冊上」退一步看整份名冊：一次看到所有名字，就是全體會員；只看名字的多寡，就是會員人數。同一個字，鏡頭拉遠了而已。
the members (group) · noun · B1
All the people who belong to a club, group, or organization, thought of as one group.
全體會員
核心畫面
Picture your name on a club's list. The word points at the fact of being on that list — you paid, you signed, you are in. From that one list you can also look at everyone else's names together, or simply count how many names there are.
可以想成：俱樂部的名冊上有你的名字。這個字指的就是「名字在上面」這件事——你報了名、繳了費，你屬於這裡。同一份名冊換…更多收起
可以想成：俱樂部的名冊上有你的名字。這個字指的就是「名字在上面」這件事——你報了名、繳了費，你屬於這裡。同一份名冊換個角度看，就長出另外兩個意思：把上面所有名字當成一群人，或是單純數一數上面有幾個名字。所以句子裡的 membership 到底指身分、指人、還是指數字，要看動詞和搭配的詞。From the picture
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being a member · noun · B1
The state of being a member of a club, group, or organization.
會員身分
原始詞典資料4 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。
membershipnoun
- 1
The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- The terms of membership agreement were vague.
- He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
- 2
The body of members of an organization.
- The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
- 3
mathematicssciencesThe fact of being a member of a set.
membershipverb
- 1
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
- Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.
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。