- [countable]
your name as you usually write it, for example at the end of a letter 签名；署名 Someone had forged her signature on the cheque. 有人在支票上伪造了她的签名。 They collected 10 000 signatures for their petition. 他们在请愿书上征集了 1 万人的签名。 He was attacked for having put his signature to the deal. 他因在协议上签了字而受到攻击。 Can you witness my signature on my will, please? 你能在我的遗嘱上见证我的签名吗？
Extra ExamplesThe form requires the signatures of two witnesses. 该表格需两名证人签字。 The law recognizes a digital signature for online transactions. 法律认可在线交易时数字签名有效。 The salesperson verifies the signature by comparing it with the one on the card. 销售人员把签名和卡上的字迹进行对比核实。 The will bears her signature. 遗嘱有她的签名。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- illegible
- handwritten
- valid
- …
- put
- scrawl
- scribble
- …
- [uncountable] (formal)
the act of signing something 签名；署名；签字；签署 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- illegible
- handwritten
- valid
- …
- put
- scrawl
- scribble
- …
- [countable, usually singular]
a particular quality that makes something different from other similar things and makes it easy to recognize 明显特征；鲜明特色；识别标志 Bright colours are his signature. 他总爱用亮丽的色彩。 The signature flavours of Thai cookery are coriander and lime. 泰国烹饪的特色是香菜和酸橙。 Each song bears the signature of its performer. 每首歌都带有演唱者的独特风格。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- characteristic
- distinctive
- telltale
- …
- detect
- bear
- leave
- …
- signature of
see also digital signature, key signature, time signature
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a Scots legal term): from medieval Latin signatura ‘sign manual’ (in late Latin denoting a marking on sheep), from Latin signare ‘to sign, mark’.