edition
/ɪˈdɪʃən/noun
1- a particular form or version of a published text版本:
a paperback edition.
平装本。
1.1
- a particular version of a text maintained by regular revision版; 版次:
a first edition.
初版。
1.2
- the total number of copies of a book, newspaper, or other published material issued at one time一版印刷数。
1.3
- a particular version or instance of a regular programme or broadcast(固定节目或广播的)版, 期:
the Monday edition will be repeated on Wednesday afternoons.
周一版将在周三下午重播。
1.4
- in sing. figurative a person or thing that is compared to another as a copy to an original〈喻〉极相似的人(或物), 翻版:
the building was a simpler edition of its namesake.
这建筑简直就是其同名物的更加简单的翻版。
词源
late Middle English: from French édition, from Latin editio(n-), from edere 'put out', from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + dare 'give'.