- 1vC1
/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/
To smooth the way for a process or activity, so it happens more easily.
促進；使容易
過去式 facilitated過去分詞 facilitated-ing facilitating三單 facilitates
核心畫面
Something is already trying to happen — a discussion, a deal, a change — and you clear the road so it can move: you take away the friction rather than push the thing yourself. The subject of this verb is often not a person but a condition, a tool, or a rule that makes the way smoother.
可以想成：有件事本來就在往前走——一場討論、一筆交易、一個改變——你做的是把路上的石頭搬開，讓它走得順，而不是自己去…更多收起
可以想成：有件事本來就在往前走——一場討論、一筆交易、一個改變——你做的是把路上的石頭搬開，讓它走得順，而不是自己去推它。這也是為什麼這個字的主詞常常不是人，而是某個條件、工具或制度：The new road facilitates trade（新路讓貿易更順）。原始詞典資料3 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。
facilitateverb/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/
- 1
To make easy or easier.
- Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
- The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
- 2
To help bring about.
- But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
- Last week, the Justice Department said it would comply with a federal judge’s order to “facilitate” the return of O.C.G., a gay man who was sent to Mexico this year despite having told American authorities that he had experienced violence there and was afraid to go back.
- 3
To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
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。