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You can think of a department as one slice cut off from a larger whole — a part that has been 'set apart' to handle its own thing. In a big organization that slice is a team with its own job; in a big shop it's an area for one kind of product; stretched , it becomes any 'area' someone is in charge of, or even one slice of a person's character.
可以把 department 想成「從一個大整體切下來、各管各事的一塊」——被劃分出去、專門負責某件事的那一部分。在…更多收起
可以把 department 想成「從一個大整體切下來、各管各事的一塊」——被劃分出去、專門負責某件事的那一部分。在大機構裡那一塊是有自己職責的團隊；在大賣場裡是賣某一類商品的區；玩笑地延伸開來，就成了某人負責的「那一塊範圍」，甚至是一個人性格裡的某一面。原始詞典資料8 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。
departmentnoun/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/
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A part, portion, or subdivision.
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A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
- Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.
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A specified aspect or quality.
- The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
- While the Chiefs superstar trails legendary quarterback Tom Brady in the Super Bowl wins department – the former Patriot and Tampa Bay Buccaneer has seven to Mahomes’ three – the chatter will only get louder and louder as to whether or not the 2023 Super Bowl MVP is the greatest of all time or not as he continues his career.
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A subdivision of an organization.
- the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
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A subdivision of an organization.
- the physics department; the history department; the math department
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A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
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historicalA military subdivision of a country
- the Department of the Potomac
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obsoleteAct of departing; departure.
- For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.
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。