n.[C]

1. 銘刻；銘文；碑文；（鑄幣等上的）刻印文字
   The inscription above the door was in English.

   門上方的文字是用英文刻印的。

2. （書或畫的）題詞，獻詞
   Inside the front cover was an inscription: "To Virginia from Helena."

   書的內封面上的題詞是："海倫娜贈維吉妮亞"。

n.

1. a thing inscribed, as on a monument or in a book.
2. the action of inscribing.