• vt. 檢查，核對；制止，抑制；在…上打勾
• vi. 核實，查核；中止；打勾；[象棋]將一軍
• n. 支票；制止，抑制；檢驗，核對
• n. （英）切克（人名）

來自古法語eschequier, （棋子游戲）將軍，來自阿拉伯語shah, 王。原指一種兩軍對壘的棋子游戲，當逼近對王主帥時，則說：shah mat, 將殺死你的王，請注意，請檢查。類似于中國象棋術語將軍。其拼寫演變較復雜，首先加字母e, 然后將es又當做前綴ex-脫落，參照etude, echelon. 詞源同chess, cheque, exchequer.

check

check: There are two distinct words check in English, although by very involved pathways they are related. Check ‘verify’ [14] is originally a chess term meaning ‘threaten the king’. It comes from Old French eschequier, a derivative of the noun eschec (source also of English chess), which goes back via Vulgar Latin *scaccus and Arabic shāh to Persian shāh ‘king’ (whence also, of course, English shah). (Checkmate [14] comes via Old French eschec mat from Persian shāh māt ‘the king is left helpless’; the second element turns up again in mat or matt ‘lustreless’.) From the very specific chess sense there developed more general applications such as ‘attack’, ‘arrest’, ‘stop’, ‘restrict’, and ‘verify’.

Among these in the 18th century was ‘token used as a counterfoil for verifying something, such as an amount’. As check this survives mainly in American English (as in ‘hat-check’), but in the specific financial sense of ‘written money order’ it was transformed in British English into cheque, perhaps under the influence of exchequer. Check ‘pattern of squares’ [14] is probably short for chequer, which in turn is a reduced form of exchequer, a word derived ultimately from Vulgar Latin *scaccus ‘check’.
=> cheque, chess, exchequer

check (n.1)

c. 1300, "a call in chess noting one's move has placed his opponent's king (or another major piece) in immediate peril," from Old French eschequier "a check at chess" (also "chess board, chess set"), from eschec "the game of chess; chessboard; check; checkmate," from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic shah, from Persian shah "king," the principal piece in a chess game (see shah; also compare checkmate (n.)). Also c. 1300 in a generalized sense, "harmful incident or event."

When the king is in check that player's choices are severely limited. Hence, "sudden stoppage" (early 14c.), and by c. 1700 to "a token of ownership used to check against, and prevent, loss or theft" (surviving in hat check) and "a check against forgery or alteration," which gave the modern financial use of "bank check, money draft" (first recorded 1798 and often spelled cheque), probably influenced by exchequer. Checking account is attested from 1897, American English. Blank check in the figurative sense attested by 1849. Checks and balances is from 1782, perhaps originally suggesting machinery.

check (v.1)

late 15c., in chess, "to attack the king; to put (the opponent's king) in check;" earlier (late 14c.), "to stop, arrest; block, barricade;" see check (n.1). A player in chess limits his opponent's ability to move when he places his opponent's king in check. All the other senses seem to have developed from the chess sense: "To arrest, stop;" then "to hold in restraint" (1620s); and finally "to hold up or control" (an assertion, a person, etc.) by comparison with some authority or record, 1690s. Hence, to check off (1839); to check up (1889); to check in or out (in a hotel, of a library book, etc., by 1918). To check out (something) "to look at, investigate" is from 1959. Related: Checked; checking.

check (v.2)

"mark like a chessboard, incise with a pattern of squares or checks," late 14c. (implied in checked), from check (n.1). Related: Checking.

check (n.2)

"pattern of squares, cross-like pattern," c. 1400, short for checker (n.1).

1. Check the oil at regular intervals, and have the car serviced regularly.

定期檢查汽油，并對車輛進行定期維護。

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2. Someone comes in every day to check all is in order.

每天都有人來檢查是否一切都井然有序。

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3. Sex education is also expected to help check the spread of AIDS.

人們還希望性教育有助于控制艾滋病的蔓延。

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4. I'd like to check the balance in my account please.

請查一下我的賬戶余額。

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5. The city police set up roadblocks to check passing vehicles.

該市警察設置了路障以檢查過往車輛。

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