人做得來一件事
這一家直接就是核心畫面本身:人與事相稱。
ability to do something well · noun · C1
The ability to do something well, especially work that needs skill or knowledge.
能力
One way to picture it: someone stands in front of a task and is *adequate to it* — they have enough skill, enough knowledge, enough authority to meet what the task demands. Not brilliance, not genius: sufficiency. The person and the job fit each other.
Via Middle French compétence from Late Latin competentia, from Latin competere "to be suitable, to be adequate to, to meet" (com- "together" + petere "to seek, to aim at"). The idea of two things meeting and being suitable to each other survives in the modern sense of being adequate to a task — and equally in the legal sense of a court being the suitable body to hear a case.
competence 來自晚期拉丁文 competentia,動詞 competere 原意是「相合、相稱、足以應付」(com- 一起 + petere 追求、朝向)。兩樣東西朝同一個方向而彼此相合——這個古老的「相稱」感,同時解釋了現代的兩個用法:一個人「相稱於」一份工作,就是有能力;一個法院「相稱於」一個案件,就是有管轄權。所以能力與管轄權不是兩個無關的意思,而是同一個「這件事該歸他、他接得住」的畫面,一個用在人身上,一個用在機關身上。
Wiktionary (competence, from Late Latin competentia < competere); consistent with Online Etymology Dictionary
Two branches
人做得來一件事
這一家直接就是核心畫面本身:人與事相稱。
ability to do something well · noun · C1
The ability to do something well, especially work that needs skill or knowledge.
能力
機關管得到一件事
同樣是「相稱」,只是主角從人換成了機關,因此另立一家。
legal jurisdiction · noun · C1
The legal power of a court to hear and judge a case, or of a government to do a certain kind of official work.
管轄權
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。
competencenoun/ˈkɒm.pə.təns/
The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
datedA sustainable income.
governmentlawpoliticsthe legal authority to deal with a matter.
geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
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。