用一張桌子代表一個單位
新聞編輯室裡，負責某個主題的人就聚在某幾張桌子旁邊，久了那張桌子就被拿來當那個單位的名字。
news desk (department) · noun · A1
A part of a news company or office that deals with one special subject, such as news or sports.
（報社、電視台的）組
核心畫面
Picture a flat top at sitting height with a chair pulled up to it and drawers underneath — a surface set aside for one person's work. Because one desk usually means one job, English can also point at a desk and mean the service behind it, or the small team that sits there.
可以想成：一個坐著剛好的平面，前面拉了張椅子，下面通常有抽屜——這是「留給某個人做事」的一塊檯面。因為一張桌子通常就…更多收起
可以想成：一個坐著剛好的平面，前面拉了張椅子，下面通常有抽屜——這是「留給某個人做事」的一塊檯面。因為一張桌子通常就代表一份工作，英文也會直接用這張桌子來指後面提供的服務，或坐在那裡的那一小組人。From the picture
Also in this word
writing desk · noun · A1
A piece of furniture like a table, with a flat top and often drawers, that you sit at to write, study, or work.
書桌 / 辦公桌
information counter · noun · A1
A counter or place where you go to get information or help, for example in a hotel, airport, or library.
服務台 / 櫃台
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。
desknoun/dɛsk/
- 1
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
- She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.
- The desk was cluttered with papers and books, making it hard to concentrate.
- 2
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
- 3
A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
- the city desk, the sports desk
- the options desk, the equities desk
- 4
A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
- The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.
- […]at best a competent viola player occupies a first desk, so that he may play the occasional solos for that instrument; but I have even seen this function performed by the leaderof the first violins.
deskverb/dɛsk/
- 1
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
- 2
To equip with a desk or desks.
- But also that the said Chapell be desked, and the windowes of our said Chapell be glased, with Stores, Ymagies, Armes, Bagies ami Cognossaunts, as is by us redily divised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmews besid Smythfel, maistre of the works of our said Chapell;
- The teaching accommodation is to be as follows ;— Senior Mixed Department—Five rooms of equal area, four of which are each to be desked for forty scholars and one to be desked for thirty-two scholars
- 3
journalismmediaTo reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。