register

1. N-COUNT A register is an official list or record of people or things. 登記簿

...registers of births, deaths, and marriages. …出生、死亡及結婚登記簿。

2. V-T/V-I If you register to do something, you put your name on an official list, in order to be able to do that thing or to receive a service. 登記; 注冊

Have you come to register at the school?

你到學校來注冊過了嗎？

Thousands lined up to register to vote. 數千人排隊登記投票。

3. V-T If you register something, such as the name of a person who has just died or information about something you own, you have these facts recorded on an official list. 登記

In order to register a car in Japan, the owner must have somewhere to park it. 在日本要想登記一輛汽車，車主必須要有停車的地方。

4. V-T/V-I When something registers on a scale or measuring instrument, it shows on the scale or instrument. (在儀表上) 顯示

It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment. 衹有在先進的X光設備上它才會顯示出來。

The earthquake registered 5.7 on the Richter scale. 這次地震顯示爲裡氏5.7級。

5. V-T If you register your feelings or opinions about something, you do something that makes them clear to other people. 表示 (感情或看法)

Voters wish to register their dissatisfaction with the ruling party. 選民們希望表達他們對執政黨的不滿。

6. V-I If a feeling registers on someone's face, their expression shows clearly that they have that feeling. (麪部表情) 流露

Surprise again registered on Rodney's face. 羅德尼的臉上再次流露出驚訝的表情。

7. V-T/V-I If a piece of information does not register or if you do not register it, you do not really pay attention to it, and so you do not remember it or react to it. 畱意; 畱下印象

It wasn't that she couldn't hear me, it was just that what I said sometimes didn't register in her brain. 竝不是她聽不到我說話，而是我的話有時候沒有在她腦子裡畱下印象。

8. →see also cash register