endorse

• vt. 背書；認可；簽署；讚同；在背麵簽名

en-, 進入，使。-dors, 背，見dorsal. 財務術語，即在背後簽字。

endorse

endorse: [16] To endorse something is literally to write ‘on the back’ of it. The word comes from medieval Latin indorsāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and dorsum ‘back’ (source of English dorsal, doss, and dossier). (An earlier English version of the word was endoss [14], acquired via Old French endosser, which died out in the 17th century.)
=> dorsal, doss, dossier

endorse (v.)

c. 1400, endosse "confirm or approve" (a charter, bill, etc.), originally by signing or writing on the back of the document, from Old French endosser (12c.), literally "to put on the back," from en- "put on" (see en- (1)) + dos "back," from Latin dossum, variant of dorsum "back" (see dorsal). Assimilated 16c. in form to Medieval Latin indorsare. Figurative sense of "confirm, approve" is recorded in English first in 1847. Related: Endorsed; endorsing.

You can endorse, literally, a cheque or other papers, &, metaphorically, a claim or argument, but to talk of endorsing material things other than papers is a solecism. [Fowler]

1. The payee of the cheque must endorse the cheque.

領款人必須在支票上背書。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.

我真誠地讚同他的話。

來自《權威詞典》

3. The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land.

該計劃沒有明確地支持土地私有製.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. No one is foolish enough to endorse it.

沒有哪個人會傻得讚成它.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.

我完全擁護你對此課題的主張.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》