分派這個動作，以及分到的東西
鏡頭從「落到你桌上的那份工作」往回拉，看到的是分派的那隻手：誰負責什麼、誰用哪個位子，都是同一個動作的結果。
act of assigning jobs · noun · B1
The act of giving people particular jobs to do.
分配
核心畫面
Picture a task landing on your desk with your name on it: someone decided this one is yours. The word covers both ends of that moment — the piece of work you were handed, and the act of handing things out. What it never means is work you picked for yourself.
可以想成：一件工作落到你桌上，上面寫著你的名字——是某個人決定這件由你負責。這個字同時涵蓋那一刻的兩端：被交下來的那…更多收起
可以想成：一件工作落到你桌上，上面寫著你的名字——是某個人決定這件由你負責。這個字同時涵蓋那一刻的兩端：被交下來的那份工作，以及「分派」這個動作本身。要注意它的重點永遠是「有人指派」，自己主動找來做的事不會叫 assignment。From the picture
Also in this word
work task · noun · B1
A piece of work that someone gives you to do as part of your job.
任務
school assignment · noun · A2
A piece of work that a teacher asks a student to do.
作業
原始詞典資料9 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。
assignmentnoun/əˈsaɪn.mənt/
- 1
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
- 2
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
- 3
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- 4
An assigned task.
- The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
- 5
A position to which one is assigned.
- Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
- 6
educationA task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
- 7
lawA transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
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lawA document that effects this transfer.
- Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn operation that assigns a value to a variable.
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。