核心畫面

The picture sits in the word field. Not a field of grass — field is the place where the work is really happening, as opposed to the desk, the office, the headquarters. An organization has two kinds of people: the ones at the centre with the paperwork, and the ones sent out to where things are actually going on. A field officer is one of the second kind. Change the organization and you change what the outside looks like — a farm, or a unit of soldiers on the move — but the position is the same: out there, not back here.

畫面可以想成藏在 field 這個字裡。不是草地上的「田」,而是「事情真正在發生的地方」,跟辦公桌、辦公室、後方指揮更多收起畫面可以想成藏在 field 這個字裡。不是草地上的「田」,而是「事情真正在發生的地方」,跟辦公桌、辦公室、後方指揮部相對。一個組織裡大致有兩種人:一種坐在中心處理文件,一種被派到外面,到事情正在進行的地方。field officer 屬於後面那一種。換一個組織,外面的樣子就換一次——可能是山邊的農場,也可能是正在移動的部隊——但位置沒變:在外面,不在後方。

From the picture

跟部隊一起在外面的那一層軍官

同樣是「在外面,不在後方」,只是這裡的組織是軍隊,外面就是部隊所在的地方,而 officer 這時候真的是「軍官」。

noun · C1

An officer in the middle band of army ranks — above the junior officers and below the generals — senior enough to command a large unit such as a battalion or a regiment.

校級軍官(校官)

Also in this word

noun · C1

Someone employed by an organization to do its practical work outdoors, at the places where the work actually happens rather than in an office — often work to do with land, farms, or the countryside.

外勤人員;實地專員

原始詞典資料1 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。

field officernoun

  • 1

    A (para)military commissioned officer who holds a field grade, ranking under general officers but above lower grades and fit to command medium-size units on the field, such as a battalion or regiment; or a non-army equivalent in rank.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。