把東西分送出去
這一家是核心動作的兩種具體場景：一種是有計畫地把東西發給很多人,一種是把貨供到各店家去賣。兩者都是「從中心一份份送到許多去處」,差別只在送的是救濟還是商品、目的是分享還是販售。
sharing out · noun · C1
The act of sharing or giving out things to many people in a planned way.
分配／發放
核心畫面
Taking one pile and spreading it out to many places — handing pieces out from a center so they end up scattered across people, shops, or an area. The single source, the many destinations, and the spreading-out in between stay constant across all the senses.
可以想成把一堆東西從一個中心攤開、分送到許多地方：原本聚成一堆，現在一份一份地發出去，最後散落在不同的人、店家或區域…更多收起
可以想成把一堆東西從一個中心攤開、分送到許多地方：原本聚成一堆，現在一份一份地發出去，最後散落在不同的人、店家或區域上。一個源頭、多個去處、中間那個「散開」的動作，貫穿了 distribution 的每個用法。From the word’s history
From Latin 'distribuere' — 'dis-' (apart, in different directions) + 'tribuere' (to give, allot): 'to give out in different directions'. The modern core of spreading one source out to many places sits directly on that root.
源自拉丁文 distribuere，由 dis-（往四面、分開）加 tribuere（給、分派）組成，字面就是「往不同方向分送出去」。今天「從一個源頭散到許多地方」這個核心，正好坐落在這個字根上。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'distribute'
Two branches
散布的樣態
從「分送這個動作」轉到「散開後的結果與樣子」:不再強調誰在發,而是看東西最後怎麼分布在一片區域或一群人裡——哪裡多、哪裡少。是核心畫面定格後、回頭描述那張分布圖。
spread pattern · noun · C1
The way something is spread out in different amounts across an area or a group.
分布
原始詞典資料17 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。
distributionnoun/ˌdɪstɹɪˈbjuːʃən/
- 1
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- 2
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- 3
businessmarketingThe process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- 4
Anything distributed; portion; share.
- December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul our charitable distributions
- 5
The result of distributing; arrangement.
- A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
- To specify the effect of flutter with one figure can be extremely misleading, for it says nothing about the distribution of flutter in the spectrum of interest.
- 6
The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
- 7
The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- 8
economicssciencesThe apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
- 9
card-gamesgamesThe way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
- 10
mathematicssciencesstatisticsA probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- In fact, NALP has been at the forefront of educating prospective lawyers on the dangers of focusing on “average” starting salaries. The average is meaningless. The median is just slightly more helpful, and NALP has been begging people to pay attention to the bimodal salary distribution curve that tells the true story of how much lawyers are likely to get paid.
- The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
- 11
mathematicssciencesA subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- 12
computingengineeringmathematicsA set of bundled software components.
- a Linux distribution
- 13
businessfinanceThe process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- 14
human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe resolution of a whole into its parts.
- 15
historicalmediaprintingpublishingThe process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- 16
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- 17
A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- It is alſo called a diſtribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ſeuerall partes, and ſaie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpoſe to ſpeake, compꝛehendyng our whole talke within compaſſe of theſame.
- Diſtribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of Deſcription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Diviſion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
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。