token

token 象征，符号，标志，代金券

来自古英语 tacen,符号，象征，证据，来自 Proto-Germanic*taiknam,符号，标志，来自 PIE*teik, 显示，展示，词源同 teach,digit,toe.引申诸相关词义。

token

token: [OE] A token is etymologically something that ‘shows’ you something. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taiknam, which also produced German zeichen ‘sign’. This in turn was formed from a base *taik- ‘show’, which also produced English teach.
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token (n.)

Old English tacen "sign, symbol, evidence" (related to verb tæcan "show, explain, teach"), from Proto-Germanic *taiknam (cognates: Old Saxon tekan, Old Norse teikn "zodiac sign, omen, token," Old Frisian tekan, Middle Dutch teken, Dutch teken, Old High German zeihhan, German zeichen, Gothic taikn "sign, token"), from PIE root *deik- "to show" (see teach).

Meaning "coin-like piece of stamped metal" is first recorded 1590s. Older sense of "evidence" is retained in by the same token (mid-15c.), originally "introducing a corroborating circumstance" [OED].

token (adj.)

"nominal," 1915, from token (n.). In integration sense, first recorded 1960.

1. You described her as the token woman on the shortlist.

你把她形容为入围名单上象征性的女性人选。

2. Don't forget to clip the token and stick it on your card.

别忘了剪下标志，贴到你的卡上。

3. By the same token , the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.

正如, 永远的依存,也是永远的爱.

4. This little gift is a token of our regard.

这点礼物是我们大家的一点心意.

5. We offer this small token by way of appreciation.

我们赠送这小小的礼物以表谢意.

【sign, emblem, symbol, token, attribute, mark, signal, badge】
这组词都有“标志、象征、符号”的意思，其区别是：
sign: 普通用词，指人们公认事物的记号，也可指某种情况的征兆。
emblem: 指选定象征一个国家、民族或家庭等的图案或实物。
symbol: 指作象征或表达某种深邃意蕴的特殊事物。
token: 语气庄重，指礼品、纪念物等作为表示友谊、爱情等的象征或标志。
attribute: 指人或物及其地位、属性的象征。
mark: 普通用词，含义广泛。既可指方便于辨认而有意做的标记，又可指自然形成的标记或有别于他事物的特征。
signal: 指为某一目的而有意发出的信号。
badge: 一般指金属证章或写有姓名的带状标志物。