- 1生活津貼、助學金（尤其研究生每月領的那種）；教會裡指神職人員的俸給。注意不是「薪水」——中文如果講薪水，語感就錯了，它比較接近「補助你生活的一筆固定錢」。
A stipend is a fixed sum of money paid to someone at regular times — monthly, or once a term — to help them live while they do something that is not exactly a normal job. That last part is the key. A wage or a salary is payment for work done. A stipend is more like support: it lets you keep going. Graduate students get a stipend while they study and do research; , interns, and people doing a fellowship get one; and in older or church use, a priest or minister receives a stipend. It is usually modest — enough to live on, not to get rich on — and that expectation is built into how the word feels. People often use it exactly to signal 'this is not a real salary, don't imagine it is generous.' In modern company English it has stretched a bit: a 'wellness stipend' or 'home-office stipend' means a set allowance the company gives you each month for a particular purpose. That is now common, though a careful writer might call it an allowance. The word is somewhat formal; you would not say it about your ordinary monthly pay from a shop or an office.
組成從拉丁文 stīpendium 來，那個字本來的意思是「軍餉」。再拆下去：stips 是「小額的錢、捐獻」，pendere 是「秤重、付錢」（古代付錢要秤金屬）。所以字面上是「秤出來給你的一小筆錢」——正好對上今天「不多，但固定給」的感覺。
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
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。
stipendnoun/ˈstaɪpɛnd/
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archaicA regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary.
- He ſent for Ariſtotle (the greateſt Philoſopher in his time, & beſt learned) to teach his ſonne, vnto vvhom he gaue honorable ſtipend.
- For Cynthia doth in ſciences abound, / And giues to their profeſſors ſtipends large.
- 2
Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at regular intervals, such as an allowance, a pension, or (obsolete) a tax.
- My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.
- The Romaynes, […] appointed alſo the Cenſores to allovv out of the common butche^([sic – meaning hutche]) yearely ſtipendes, for the findings of certaine geeſe; […]
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educationA scholarship granted to a student.
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obsoleteMoney which is earned; an income.
- And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]
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obsoleteA one-off payment for a service provided.
- ["H]e [Jesus] vvas man, he took upon him our ſins;" Not the vvork of ſin, I mean not ſo, not to do it, not to commit it, but to purge it, to cleanſe it, to bear the ſtipend of it: […]
- This fight vvas ſo vvell performed, that a report vvent currant, of Castor and Pollux, tvvo Gods, vvho came on milke-vvhite Steeds, to be eye vvitneſſes of their valour, and fellovv helpers of their victorie; for the Generall conſecrated a Temple to them, as a ſtipend for their paines.
stipendverb/ˈstaɪpɛnd/
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obsoletehistoricalTo provide (someone) with a stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).
- I, Sir, am a Phyſician, and am ſtipended in this Iland to bee ſo to the Gouernours of it: and I am much more carefull of their health, then of mine ovvn; ſtudying night & day, and vveighing the complexion of the Gouernour, that I may hit the better vpon the curing him, vvhenſoeuer hee falls ſicke: […]
- The recently discovered "Letters of Daniel Defoe," existing in the Record Office, leave no doubt of the Government practice of suborning and stipending newspaper proprietors and writers connected with them was as old as the times of the "Mercurius Politicus," and other contemporaneous newspapers under Defoe's management and influence.
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