核心畫面
You can picture a sponsor as someone who steps in and pays the bill so an event, a person, or a plan can actually happen — and in return their name gets tied to it. They are not the player or the cause itself; they stand behind it, putting up money or backing so it can go forward, and they get the credit or visibility for having made it possible.
可以把 sponsor 想成那個「出錢、把事情撐起來」的人或公司：他不是台上的主角，而是站在背後付帳的人，讓一場活動…更多收起
可以把 sponsor 想成那個「出錢、把事情撐起來」的人或公司：他不是台上的主角，而是站在背後付帳的人，讓一場活動、一個人、或一項計畫能真的辦成、走下去；做為交換，他的名字就跟這件事綁在一起，得到曝光或功勞。核心畫面比較像「我來付這筆錢，這件事才成得了，而大家會知道是我撐的」。原始詞典資料4 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。
sponsornoun/ˈspɒn.səː/
- 1
A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
- They were my sponsors for immigration.
- 2
A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.
- Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring.
- 3
A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
- And now a word from our sponsor.
sponsorverb/ˈspɒn.səː/
- 1
To be a sponsor for.
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
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。