- 1分配；分攤；（美國）國會席次分配
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. 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. 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.
組成From apportion + -ment (a suffix that makes a noun for an action or its result).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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
- 1
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.
- 2
The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
- 3
The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。