You can picture subscribe as signing your name at the bottom of something and, by that signature, committing yourself to it on a regular, ongoing basis — you put your name down, and from then on money or support keeps flowing.
From the word’s history
From Latin subscribere 'to write underneath, sign one's name', from sub 'under' + scribere 'to write'. The literal act of signing at the bottom of a document grew into 'bind oneself / agree to pay regularly', which is exactly the modern core.
來自拉丁文 subscribere「寫在下面、簽上名字」,由 sub(在下面)+ scribere(書寫)組成。原本就是「在文件底下簽名」這個具體動作,後來長成「把自己綁定、答應定期付出」——正好就是現代的核心畫面。
etymonline.com/word/subscribe
原始詞典資料14 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。
subscribeverb/səbˈskɹaɪb/
- 1
To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- [They] subscribed their names under them.
- […] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]
- 2
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
- Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
- Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
- 3
To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
- Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- 4
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
- I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
- 5
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 6
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- 7
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- The culprits are old boys of Ardingly College, Sussex, who, in years gone by, wrote their names on the walls of the organ loft, an act which was strictly forbidden. Now they have been invited to subscribe towards the £400 required to make improvements to the organ.
- 8
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
businessfinanceTo agree to buy shares in a company.
- The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- 10
obsoleteTo sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- Admit no other way to save his life , (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the loss of question) […]
- 11
obsoleteTo yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
- 12
obsoleteTo declare over one's signature; to publish.
- I will subscribe him a coward.
- 13
To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
- Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
- 14
computingengineeringmathematicsTo register for notifications about an event or similar.
- If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。