核心畫面
You can think of trust as leaning your weight on someone or something without checking first: you feel sure they are honest, solid, and safe, so you let yourself depend on them. From that one act of confident leaning grow two directions — the feeling/belief itself (trusting a person, a fact, a machine), and the formal world built on it: when you hand money or property into someone's safe-keeping because you rely on them, that arrangement (and the bodies that run it) is also called a trust.
可以想成 trust 是「還沒查證就把重量靠上去」：你覺得對方誠實、可靠、不會害你，於是放心地把自己交給他、依靠他。…更多收起
可以想成 trust 是「還沒查證就把重量靠上去」：你覺得對方誠實、可靠、不會害你，於是放心地把自己交給他、依靠他。從這個「放心倚靠」的動作長出兩個方向：一是這份感覺或信念本身（信任一個人、相信一件事、相信機器會正常運作），二是建立在它之上的正式制度——當你因為信得過某人，就把錢或財產託付給他保管，這種安排（以及經營它的機構）也叫 a trust。原始詞典資料26 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。
trustnoun/tɹʌst/
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Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
- to lose trust in someone
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Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- Such trust have we through Christ.
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Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
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That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
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That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
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rareTrustworthiness, reliability.
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The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust
- 17th century, John Denham, Of Justice Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
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lawThe confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- I put the house into my sister's trust.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
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A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAffirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
trustverb/tɹʌst/
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To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
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To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- In God We Trust
- Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes and trust in me
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To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- Trust me, you looke well.
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To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
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to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
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To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
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To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
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To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- to trust to luck
- Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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archaicTo risk; to venture confidently.
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
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To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- More ſhould I queſtion thee, and more I muſt, / Though more to know, could not be more to truſt: […]
- I will trust and not be afraid.
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archaicTo sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
trustadj/tɹʌst/
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obsoleteSecure, safe.
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obsoleteFaithful, dependable.
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lawof or relating to a trust.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。