喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture someone with the authority to decide pointing at a thing and at a person and joining the two: this task goes to you, this room goes to them, this number goes to that file. The word always has that deciding figure behind it — things do not assign themselves.

可以想成：一個有權決定的人，指著一樣東西、再指著一個對象，把兩者綁在一起——這件工作歸你，這間房間歸他們，這個編號歸…更多收起可以想成：一個有權決定的人，指著一樣東西、再指著一個對象，把兩者綁在一起——這件工作歸你，這間房間歸他們，這個編號歸那份檔案。這個字背後永遠站著那個做決定的人；東西不會自己 assign 自己。

From the picture

把資源或編號撥給某個對象

同樣是那個做決定的人在配對，只是被派出去的不再是工作，而是東西、時間或編號——對象也可能不是人，而是一份檔案、一個項目。

assign a resource · verb · B2

To give someone something such as a room, a machine, or money, for them to use.

分配(東西給某人用)

Also in this word

assign a task · verb · B1

To give a job or a task to one particular person, or to put someone in charge of a particular person, group, or place.

指派；分配(工作)

原始詞典資料11 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。

assignverb/əˈsaɪn/

  • 1

    To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

    • to assign a day for trial
  • 2

    To appoint or select (someone) for some office.

    • to assign counsel for a prisoner
  • 3

    To allot or give (something) as a task.

    • “I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
    • He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
  • 4

    To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

  • 5

    To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

  • 6

    lawTo transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

  • 7

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo give (a value) to a variable.

    • We assign 100 to x.

assignnoun/əˈsaɪn/

  • 1

    An assignee.

    • Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.
  • 2

    obsoleteA thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

    • The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
  • 3

    obsoleteAn assignment or appointment.

  • 4

    obsoleteA design or purpose.

    • He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.

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。