- 1人體工學（職場與工程界也常說「人因工程」）
Ergonomics is the study of how to shape tools, chairs, desks, screens, and whole workplaces around the human body, so people can work with less pain and less wasted movement. A good design is not mainly about looking modern. It is about whether your wrists, back, eyes, and hands can do the job for hours without being forced into an awkward shape. Factories use it in a serious way: changing the height of a bench, or the way a machine is held, so a worker does not twist the same way a thousand times a day. Offices use it more softly, for chairs and keyboards. Though actually, shops now pin the word on almost anything with a curve in it. “” on a packet can just be a selling word, not a careful claim. The field itself is real and quite technical; everyday English has borrowed the adjective and stretched it.
組成From ergo- (“work”) + -nomics (“the rules of a field”), probably modelled on Polish ergonomia. The Greek pieces are ἔργον (érgon, “work”) and νόμος (nómos, “law, custom”). English is widely said to have taken the word up after a 1949 meeting in London led by the psychologist K. F. Hywel Murrell.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
ergonomicsnoun/ɜː.ɡəˈnɒm.ɪks/
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The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.
- Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.
- Ergonomics, deriving from the Greek word "ergon" work is now mainly considered to mean "the science of designing machines and environments that are most suited to the efficiency, comfort, safety and peace of mind of those working with them" (see Armbruster, 1983). […] Ergonomics goes beyond the prevention of health hazards, it aims to optimize the coexistence between people and technology within the working environment. […] In the broad sense of the word, ergonomics includes all the physical, social, and psychological aspects of work and workplace design.
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rareeconomicssciencesPolitical economy.
- As the titlepage of this latter portion of his work indicates, M. Courcelle Seneuil confines himself to political economy considered as a practical science, or, as he chooses to call it, to ergonomics.
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