核心畫面
Picture the machine in a school office: you lay a page face down, press the button, a light slides across under the glass, and a warm sheet comes out the side that looks just like the page you put in. Photocopy can be thought of as that warm sheet — and, when you need the doing rather than the thing, as the pressing of the button that produces it.
可以想成學校辦公室那台機器：把紙面朝下壓在玻璃上，按下去，一道光在底下掃過，旁邊就吐出一張還熱熱的紙，跟你放進去的那…更多收起
可以想成學校辦公室那台機器：把紙面朝下壓在玻璃上，按下去，一道光在底下掃過，旁邊就吐出一張還熱熱的紙，跟你放進去的那張長得一模一樣。photocopy 就像是那張吐出來的紙；而當你要講的是動作而不是東西時，它就變成「按下那個鍵、讓紙跑出來」這件事。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。
photocopynoun/ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/
- 1
A copy made using a photocopier.
photocopyverb/ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/
- 1
To make a copy using a photocopier.
- ‘I don’t need to read it. The relevant passages have been photocopied for me.’
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。