喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a split into groups, each one sitting at its own desk and each one owning a kind of story — sport here, foreign news there. A desk in this building is a team, not a piece of furniture, and a story belongs to whichever desk covers that beat. The city desk is the one holding the stories that come from the city itself. Which city, and which kind of story, is answered differently on the two sides of the Atlantic, and that is the whole of this word's difficulty.

可以想成一間報社的編輯台被分成好幾組，每一組守著自己的一張桌子，各自管一種新聞——體育在這邊，國際在那邊。在這棟樓裡…更多收起可以想成一間報社的編輯台被分成好幾組，每一組守著自己的一張桌子，各自管一種新聞——體育在這邊，國際在那邊。在這棟樓裡，desk 指的是一個團隊，不是一張家具，一則新聞屬於哪一組，看它跑的是哪條線。city desk 就是那組手上握著「城裡來的新聞」的人。至於是哪座城、哪種新聞，大西洋兩邊給的答案不一樣——這個詞的難處，全部就在這裡。

One branch

守著「城裡新聞」的那一組，兩邊答案不同

兩個意思共用同一個畫面：報社裡負責「城裡那塊」的一組人。分岔的地方在於，美加報社說的城是自家這座城，英國報社說的城比較偏金融這一塊。

noun · C1

In American and Canadian newspapers, the part of the news team that gathers and edits local news — what is happening in the paper's own city and the area around it. The phrase covers both the department and the reporters and editors who work in it.

地方新聞組