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From the word’s history

From Middle English quoten, from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre 'to number chapters', from Latin quotus, from quot 'how many'.

源自中世紀拉丁文 quotāre「給章節編號」，來自 quot「多少」。

Wiktionary

You can think of quote as 'to point at someone else's exact words and repeat them as theirs, not yours'. You are not making the words up — you are pulling them out unchanged and saying 'these are their words, written/said just like this'. From repeating a saying, the same move stretches to repeating an exact number a source gives you — including the exact price a seller names.

可以想成「指著別人講過或寫過的『原話』，一字不改地照搬出來，並且聲明這是『他們的』話、不是你自己編的」。重點在於那串字是固定的、別人給的，你只是原封不動地搬過來。從照搬一句話，同一個動作延伸到照搬一個來源給的「確切數字」——包括賣方開出的確切價格。名詞用法則是被搬出來的那串字本身（引文、引號），或被報出來的那個數字（報價單）。

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同家族的字

v quoted quoted quoting quotes

n quotes

意思相近

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

quotenoun/kwəʊt/

  • 1

    A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.

    • She loved reading quotes of famous people.
  • 2

    A quotation mark.

  • 3

    A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.

    • After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.
  • 4

    A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.

quoteverb/kwəʊt/

  • 1

    To repeat (the exact words of a person).

    • The writer quoted the president's speech.
  • 2

    To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.

    • Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?
  • 3

    businesscommerceTo name the current price, notably of a financial security.

  • 4

    To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.

  • 5

    archaicTo observe, to take account of.

    • But must our moderne Critticks envious eye Seeme thus to quote some grosse deformity?
    • That hath made him mad. I am sorry that with better heed and judgment I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle …

quoteparticle/kwəʊt/

  • 1

    Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation.

    • She told me she was, quote, "too hot for you."

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。