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Apportionment is the noun for that sharing: the act of deciding how something should be divided among people or groups, or the share each one receives. You meet it in law, government, and official papers — how to split costs, taxes, or seats.
Apportionment這個字 is the noun for that sharing是「分享」這件事的名詞: the act of deciding how something should be divided among people or groups也就是決定某樣東西該怎麼分給不同的人或團體這個動作, or the share each one receives或是每個人分到的那一份. You meet it in law, government, and official papers你會在法律、政府和官方文件裡遇到它 — how to split costs, taxes, or seats像是怎麼分攤費用、稅金,或席次
In the United States it has a special, famous use: after each census, apportionment is how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives, according to population.
In the United States it has a special, famous use在美國,它有一個特別有名的用法: after each census每次人口普查之後, apportionment is how many seats each state gets in the House of Representativesapportionment指的是每一州在眾議院能分到幾個席次, according to population依照人口數來算
Everyday talk prefers sharing out or division. The matching verb is . The idea is the same as the verb, but here it is the name of the process or the result, not the action word.
Everyday talk日常說法 prefers比較常用 sharing out or divisionsharing out或division這兩個字. The matching verb相對應的動詞 is apportion是apportion. The idea is the same as the verb意思跟那個動詞一樣, but here it is the name of the process or the result但這裡指的是這個過程或結果的名稱, not the action word而不是動作本身那個字
原始詞典資料3 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。
apportionmentnoun
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The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
- The names of the prayers are given above the tunes, but there is no indication of apportionment of the text to the phrases and notes of the melody.
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The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
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The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
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。