認了這是真的
對上的東西從一張臉換成一件事實：你原本大概知道，但一直沒去對；一旦對上了，就等於承認它是真的。所以這一族的重點不在「發現」，而在「不再迴避、正式認下來」。
accepting as true · noun · C2
Accepting that something is true or important once you have seen it.
體認 / 認清
核心畫面
Picture the small click in your head when a face in the crowd stops being a stranger: you have seen this before, and now you know it again. Something outside you matches something already stored inside you, and the match is what the word names. One way to hold the whole word is that click of knowing again - sometimes it lands on a face, sometimes on a fact, sometimes on what someone did for you.
可以想成人群裡一張臉突然不再是陌生人的那一瞬間，腦袋裡「喀」的一聲：這個我見過，現在我又知道它是誰了。外面的東西跟你…更多收起
可以想成人群裡一張臉突然不再是陌生人的那一瞬間，腦袋裡「喀」的一聲：這個我見過，現在我又知道它是誰了。外面的東西跟你腦袋裡早就存著的東西對上了，這個字說的就是那個對上的動作。整個字都像從這一聲「又認出來了」長出來——有時候對上的是一張臉，有時候是一個事實，有時候是別人為你做過的事。From the picture
公開給出的肯定
對上的東西換成「別人做過的事」，而且要說出口：大家看見了你的付出，把它認下來，還公開講出來。認出來這個動作在這裡變成一份給出去的東西，所以它可以被 receive（得到）、也可以 deserve（值得）。
public praise · noun · C2
Public respect and thanks given to someone for their work or achievements.
肯定 / 表揚
Also in this word
identifying someone · noun · C2
Knowing a person or thing again because you have come across them before.
認出 / 辨認
speech recognition · noun · C2
The ability of a computer to understand and identify spoken words.
語音辨識
原始詞典資料6 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。
recognitionnoun/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
- 1
The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- 2
Acceptance as valid or true.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
- 3
Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
- 4
Honour, favourable note, or attention.
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
- 5
immunologymedicinesciencesThe propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
- 6
historicalA return of the feu to the superior.
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。