核心畫面

Picture the moment someone leaves a place — bags packed, they walk out the door and set off. Departure is that act of going away, the point where you turn from 'here' and head somewhere else.

可以想成一個人離開某地的那一刻:行李收好,走出門、動身上路。departure 就是「離開、動身」這個動作,是你從「更多收起可以想成一個人離開某地的那一刻:行李收好,走出門、動身上路。departure 就是「離開、動身」這個動作,是你從「這裡」轉身、往別處去的那個起點。

Three branches

從一個地方離開

最貼近核心的一組:實實在在地離開一個地點。

leaving to start a journey · noun · B1

The act of leaving a place, especially when you are starting a journey.

出發/離開

離開職位或群體

把「離開一個地點」搬到抽象的位置上:你離開的不是一個地方,而是一個職位、團隊或身分。

leaving a job · noun · B1

The act of leaving a job, group, or official position.

離職/離開

打破慣例

再抽象一層:離開的不是地方也不是職位,而是「一向的做法」。你從習慣、傳統或大家預期的路線上走開,另闢一條。

break from the norm · noun · B1

A change from the usual or expected way of doing something.

轉變/打破慣例

原始詞典資料7 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。

departurenoun/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    The act of departing or something that has departed.

    • The departure was scheduled for noon.
    • The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
  • 2

    A deviation from a plan or procedure.

    • any departure from a national standard
    • There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
  • 3

    A death.

    • The time of my departure is at hand.
    • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
  • 4

    The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.

  • 5

    geographynatural-sciencessurveyingThe difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

    • The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
  • 6

    lawThe desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another

  • 7

    obsoleteDivision; separation; putting away.

    • no other remedy […] but absolute departure

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。