核心畫面
Picture a secret word you must produce to be let through — the guard won't open the gate until you say the right one. 'Password' is literally the word that lets you 'pass'. Today it's most often the string you type to log in; the older picture is the spoken that gets you past a guard.
可以想成一個你必須說出來才能被放行的祕密字眼——你不說對，門口的人就不讓你過。Password 字面就是「讓你通過（…更多收起
可以想成一個你必須說出來才能被放行的祕密字眼——你不說對，門口的人就不讓你過。Password 字面就是「讓你通過（pass）的字（word）」。今天它最常指你登入時打進去的那串密碼；比較舊的畫面則是對著守衛說出、好讓你通關的暗語。原始詞典資料3 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。
passwordnoun/ˈpæs.wɜɹd/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
- Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.
- Now, Max, by what combination of circumstances is a rogue to know my password, to be able to forge my signature, to possess himself of my key, and to resemble me personally? And, finally, how is he possibly to determine beforehand whether there is anything in my safe to repay so elaborate a plant?
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computingcryptographyengineeringA string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.
- A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
passwordverb/ˈpæs.wɜɹd/
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo protect with a password.
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。