facsimile

参见：facsimilé、fac-simile 和 fac-similé

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 fac simile (“使...像”)，源自fac (“使”)（facere (“使”)的命令形） + simile（similis (“像的”)的中性形式）。

发音

• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/fækˈsɪm.ə.li/

• （美国）音频

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名词

facsimile (复数 facsimiles 或 facsimilia)

1. (可数) 复印件，副本，复制体
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

2. (不可数) 复制，重新生产
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

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3. 传真机
4. 传真

近义词

• (副本)： autotype、copy、reproduction
• (传真机)： facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (传真)： facsimile reproduction, fax

动词

facsimile (第三人称单数简单现在时 facsimiles，现在分词 facsimileing 或 facsimiling，一般过去时及过去分词 facsimiled 或 facsimilied)

1. (及物) 通过传真发送
2. (及物) 复制，重新生产

近义词

• fax、telefax