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To apportion is to decide how something should be shared among different people or groups — money, time, blame, work, or seats in a government. It is a careful, formal verb. A court may apportion costs; a manager may apportion the budget; a government may apportion tax money to cities. Everyday English more often says share out, divide, or split. Though actually, apportion often suggests the shares follow a rule, and should feel fair, not just random. It is not the same as portion used for food.
分配；分攤
組成From Middle French apportionner, from Old French aporcioner, from Late Latin apportionare, from Latin ad + portio. By surface analysis, ap- + portion.
同家族的字
- portiona share or part — the same Latin portio
- apportionmentthe noun — the act or result of sharing something out
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
apportionverb/əˈpɔːʃən/
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To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
- The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.
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Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.
- The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.
- The Good Friday Agreement did not, and could not, apportion blame for the Troubles, in which, as in so many such conflicts, one side’s terrorist is the other’s hero.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。