A useful picture for facsimile is someone holding up an original and saying, 'make me one exactly like this.' What comes back is not a summary and not a retyped version — it is a thing that looks the same, mark for mark. Both meanings of the word sit on that picture: the museum page that copies every ink spot, and the machine that sends a copy of your page down a phone line so that the same page comes out at the other end.
facsimile 可以想成有人舉起原件說：「照這個樣子，做一個一模一樣的給我。」拿回來的東西不是摘要，也不是重打一遍的版本，而是連痕跡都對得上的複製品。這個字的兩個意思都靠在這個畫面上：博物館裡連墨點都照印的那一頁，還有把你手上那張紙從電話線送出去、在另一頭原樣吐出來的機器。
From the word’s history
From Latin fac simile, 'make like': fac is the command form of 'make', simile means 'similar'. The instruction is inside the word.
來自拉丁文 fac simile（做得一樣）：fac 是「做」的命令形，simile 是「相像的」。也就是說，這個字本身就是一句「照樣做一個」的指令。
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