核心畫面
Picture money making the return trip: it left your hand at the counter, something was wrong with the deal, and now the same amount travels back to you. Not a gift and not a discount — a payment being undone.
可以想成:一筆錢走了回頭路——它本來在結帳時離開你的手,後來這筆交易出了問題,於是同樣的金額又走回你這裡。它不是贈品…更多收起
可以想成:一筆錢走了回頭路——它本來在結帳時離開你的手,後來這筆交易出了問題,於是同樣的金額又走回你這裡。它不是贈品,也不是折扣,而是「把已經付掉的那筆撤銷」。原始詞典資料5 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。
refundverb/ɹɪˈfʌnd/
- 1
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
- If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.
- A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken.
- 2
To obtain a refund.
- This game sucks, Imma refund it.
- 3
obsoleteTo supply (someone) again with funds.
- to refund a railroad loan
- 4
obsoleterareTo pour back (something).
- Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
- When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
refundnoun/ɹɪˈfʌnd/
- 1
An amount of money returned.
- If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
- RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.
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。