交出權力：授權
這一支就是核心畫面本身：焦點在「交出去」這個動作，看的是權力或責任如何從一個人流到另一個人手上。
delegation of authority · noun · C2
The act of giving some of your power or work to another person, so they take care of that part of your job.
授權
核心畫面
Hold this picture: you have a job or an authority that is yours, and you hand a piece of it to someone else so that they carry it in your place. The thing stays yours in name; the doing of it moves to them.
本來屬於你的一份權力或工作，你把其中一塊交到別人手上，讓他「代替你」去執行。名義上這件事還是掛在你身上，但實際去做、…更多收起
本來屬於你的一份權力或工作，你把其中一塊交到別人手上，讓他「代替你」去執行。名義上這件事還是掛在你身上，但實際去做、去發言的人換成了他。拉丁字根 lēgāre 就是「派遣、委任」（跟 legate 特使同源），de- 表示「把…交出去」——所以 delegation 的骨架一直是「把該我做的事，交給別人代行」。From the word’s history
From Latin dēlēgātiō, from dēlēgāre 'to send away on a commission, entrust', built on lēgāre 'to send as a deputy' — the root also behind legate and legacy. Sending someone to act in your place is the original picture.
來自拉丁文 dēlēgātiō，動詞 dēlēgāre「委派、託付」，字根 lēgāre 是「派人代表自己前往」——legate（特使）也是同一個根。「派人代替我去辦」這個原始畫面，正好一頭連著「派出去的那群人」，一頭連著「把權力交出去」這個動作。
Wiktionary (delegation < Latin dēlēgātiō < dēlēgō < lēgō) — as given in the payload's attested-origins note
Two branches
派出去的人：代表團
同一個動作，但看的是結果——被派出去代行的那群人本身，於是抽象的「委任」凝結成一群看得見的人。
delegation (group of reps) · noun · C2
A group of people sent to speak or act for a company, an organization, or a country.
代表團
原始詞典資料5 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。
delegationnoun/dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/
- 1
An act of delegating.
- Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […].
- 2
The condition of being delegated.
- 3
A group of delegates.
- the American delegation
- 4
computingengineeringmathematicsA method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- 5
lawThe act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- The mere delegation of a performance imposes no duty on the delegate to perform. If the delegate performs the duty, the duty is discharged. If the delegate does not perform the duty, the duty is not discharged, but any claim of the obligee for breach is against the delegating party and not against the delegate.
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。