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/səbˈskraɪb/

Why do you write underneath in order to join?为什么要写在下面,才能加入?

Today此刻

To sign up for something, or to support it.报名参加一件事,或支持它。

Historical历史形态

Take it apart拆开来看

Latin sub- plus scribere, to write underneath. The signature is the historical picture. The magazine subscription is a later use of that signature.拉丁语 sub- 加 scribere,写在下面。签名是历史图画。杂志订阅是这签名后来的用法。

Travel through time穿过时间

  1. Latin拉丁语

    subscribere

    to write underneath写在下面

  2. English英语

    subscribe

    to sign, to support签名,支持

View research notes查看研究笔记

How the meaning moved意义如何移动

  1. 01 · Latin01 · 拉丁语

    to write underneath写在下面

  2. 02 · English02 · 英语

    to sign one’s name签上自己的名字

  3. 03 · later English03 · 较晚的英语

    to support, or to take a periodical支持,或订阅一份刊物

Story故事

The name written under the text写在文本下面的名字

Latin subscribere is sub-, under, plus scribere, to write. To subscribe is to write underneath a document: to sign it, to add a name below the words. From the signature comes assent. From assent comes the promise to pay, or to receive, over a stretch of time. A subscription is a name that keeps being honored.

Describe writes the thing down. Subscribe writes the person under it. The difference is the whole social history of the signature: responsibility placed beneath a text.

Broadcast sends a message outward to a crowd. Subscribe is one person writing themselves into a list. The two words meet in the modern media room from opposite directions.

拉丁语 subscribere 是 sub-(在下)加 scribere(写)。subscribe 是写在一份文件下面:签名,在字句之下加上一个名字。从签名生出同意。从同意生出在一段时间里付钱或接收的承诺。一份订阅是一个持续被履行的名字。

describe 把事情写下来。subscribe 把人写在它下面。差别是签名的整部社会史:责任被放在文本之下。

broadcast 把讯息向外送给一群人。subscribe 是一个人把自己写进一份名单。两个词从相反的方向在现代的媒介房间里相遇。

Keep wandering继续漫游

Research notes研究笔记

Confidence · High把握 · 高

The outline is the ordinary account in historical dictionaries.轮廓与历史词典里的通行说法一致。

Sources出处

An outline for the visitor, not a critical edition.给访客的纲要,不是校勘本。

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