系統的功能
機器或系統裡專門讓你做某件事的功能,和實體設施是同一個念頭——都是「備好讓你容易做某事」的東西,只是這裡是內建在系統裡的能力,不是一個房間。
device feature · noun · B2
A special part of a machine, phone, or system that lets you do a particular thing.
功能
核心畫面
Think of a facility as something set up so a task becomes easy to do — the rooms, gear, or services put there so people can actually go and do that thing.
可以想成:facility 是為了讓某件事做起來更容易、更順,而特別備好的東西——房間、設備、服務,擺在那裡就是要讓…更多收起
可以想成:facility 是為了讓某件事做起來更容易、更順,而特別備好的東西——房間、設備、服務,擺在那裡就是要讓你能去做那件事。From the word’s history
From Latin facilis 'easy to do' (from facere 'to do'). The original idea is 'ease of doing', which branched two ways in English: things provided to make an activity easy, and a natural ease in doing something.
facility 來自拉丁文 facilis(容易做),再往上是 facere(做),原意就是「做起來很容易」。英文後來把這條「讓事情變容易」的線長成兩個方向:為做某事而備好的設備場所,以及天生做某事就很順手的能力。
etymonline.com/word/facility (Latin facilis 'easy to do', from facere 'to do')
From the picture
天生的俐落
這一支最貼近字根 facilis「容易」:設施是外在幫你把事情變容易,而這裡是「做起來很容易」這件事直接長在人身上。
natural ability · noun · B2
A natural ability to do something easily and well, without much effort.
天分 / 才能
Also in this word
amenities, facilities · noun · B2
Rooms, equipment, or services that a place provides so people can do a particular thing.
設施
building for an activity · noun · B2
A place or building that is built and used for a particular activity, industry, or service.
場所 / 設施
toilet (polite word) · noun · B2
A polite way to say the toilet, especially in a public place.
洗手間
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。
facilitynoun/fəˈsɪlɪti/
- 1
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
- Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
- A wide range of facilities is available at the sports center, including a weight room and saunas.
- 2
A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- 3
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
- Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
- Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
- 4
Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
- The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- 5
A toilet.
- 6
A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
- 7
datedAffability.
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。