cheque/ check,rain check, carbon copy

Dear HC,

   rain check 不是支票，它是棒球賽因雨停賽，買票入場的觀眾會拿到一張 rain check, 它可以用這張 rain check, 兌換成同一球場的入場門票看任何一場球賽(當然，

不能拿一般球賽的 rain check 兌換冠亞軍決賽的入場卷)。硬是要硬翻，就翻成「入場門票兌換卷」(停賽原因，不限於是下雨停賽)。就像 cc. 原意是跑一份 carbon copy，現在只留下「傳一份複本」的意涵，跟 carbon 扯不上關係。

rain check

noun

North American

• 1A ticket given for later use when a sporting fixture or other outdoor event is interrupted or postponed by rain.
  

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• 2A coupon issued to a customer by a shop, guaranteeing that a sale item which is out of stock may be purchased by that customer at a later date at the same reduced price.

Phrases

take a rain check

Used to refuse an offer politely, with the implication that one may take it up at a later date: they wanted me to come along for the ride but I took a rain check

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• Now now I didn't turn you down I just took a rain check.
• She took a rain check on the invitation to lunch with her colleagues and sought Mel out instead.
• I think I'll take a rain check on that one, Winters.

 ((主に米))
1 雨切符，雨天引替券，雨天順延券.
2 招待の順延（の申し出，要請），またの機会，次のとき

take a rain check
（都合が悪いので）また今度にしてもらう（▼食事の招待などを断る決まり文句）.

3 （売り切れ商品の）購入予約券，予約引換券. （またráin・chèck）

carbon copy

Line breaks: car¦bon copy

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noun

• 1A copy of written or typed material made with carbon paper: the files were filled with carbon copies
  

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• 1.1A person or thing identical or very similar to another: the children were carbon copies of their father
  

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  • The sounds are nothing groundbreaking, but at least each song is not a carbon copy of the previous track.
  • But why make a carbon copy of the original version?
  • In other cricket, the second England v Zimbabwe match was a carbon copy of the first.

A cheque with Thomas Jefferson as payee and payor from 1809

A cheque from 1905

A cheque from 1933

A cheque sample from Canada 2006

A cheque (or check in American English) is a document^{[nb 1]} that orders a payment of money from a bank account. The person writing the cheque, the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing or checking account) where their money is held. The drawer writes the various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay that person or company the amount of money stated.
Cheques are a type of bill of exchange and were developed as a way to make payments without the need to carry large amounts of money. While paper money evolved from promissory notes, another form of negotiable instrument, similar to cheques in that they were originally a written order to pay the given amount to whoever had it in their possession (the "bearer").
Technically, a cheque is a negotiable instrument^{[nb 2]} instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specified transactional account held in the drawer's name with that institution. Both the drawer and payee may be natural persons or legal entities. Specifically, cheques are order instruments, and are not in general payable simply to the bearer (as bearer instruments are) but must be paid to the payee. In some countries, such as the US, the payee may endorse the cheque, allowing them to specify a third party to whom it should be paid.
Although forms of cheques have been in use since ancient times and at least since the 9th century, it was during the 20th century that cheques became a highly popular non-cash method for making payments and the usage of cheques peaked. By the second half of the 20th century, as cheque processing became automated, billions of cheques were issued annually; these volumes peaked in or around the early 1990s.^[1] Since then cheque usage has fallen, being partly replaced by electronic payment systems. In an increasing number of countries cheques have either become a marginal payment system or have been completely phased out.