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請(qǐng)看外電相關(guān)報(bào)道：Chen, whose approval rating has sunk to new lows after an insider trading scandal implicated his son-in-law. And meanwhile, Chen's wife, Wu Shu-chen is involved in another scandal, accused of receiving free vouchers from the management of an upscale Taipei department store.

報(bào)道中的voucher就是引起臺(tái)灣民眾公憤的“禮券”，也可寫(xiě)成“gift voucher”。實(shí)質(zhì)上，在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，人們使用voucher的頻率相當(dāng)高，如員工的“飯票”、用來(lái)購(gòu)物的“購(gòu)物券”，這時(shí)，其英文的基本釋義是a certificate which is worth a certain monetary value，即我們常常言及的“代金券”。請(qǐng)看下面例句：

Some firms give their workers luncheon vouchers. 有些公司會(huì)給員工發(fā)午餐券。

另外，voucher也用來(lái)指“a written record of expenditure, a proof”（花費(fèi)的憑據(jù)、單據(jù)），例如：a baggage voucher（行李單）；a pay voucher（工資單）。由此，voucher做動(dòng)詞時(shí)也可引申為“證明；出示憑證”，例如：

A company would voucher employees when the payroll cannot be met. 公司在發(fā)不出工資時(shí)，會(huì)給員工開(kāi)寫(xiě)一定的憑證。


(英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津陳蓓編輯）