命令發出去的那個地點
兩個意思其實是同一個畫面換場景：一邊是軍隊和救難隊，一邊是公司和組織，共同點都是「這裡坐著發號施令的人」。
command center · noun · B2
The place from which officers control and direct people and plans, especially in an army or a rescue team.
指揮部
核心畫面
The word is built out of two everyday pieces: head, the one in charge, and quarters, the place people are stationed. Put together you get the spot where the person giving the orders actually sits — maps on the wall, radios on the desk, everyone else spread out somewhere else. That picture explains what makes a headquarters different from a big office: it is not the largest building, it is the building the decisions leave from.
這個字是由兩個日常的零件拼起來的：head 是帶頭的人，quarters 是駐紮、落腳的地方。合起來就是「下命令的人…更多收起
這個字是由兩個日常的零件拼起來的：head 是帶頭的人，quarters 是駐紮、落腳的地方。合起來就是「下命令的人坐的那個點」——牆上掛著地圖、桌上放著無線電，其他人全散在外面。這個畫面剛好說明了 headquarters 跟一般辦公室的差別：它不一定是最大的那棟樓，而是決定從那裡發出去的那棟樓。One branch
原始詞典資料4 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。
headquartersnoun/ˌhɛdˈk(w)ɔː.təz/
- 1
The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
- 2
The center of an organization's operations or administration.
- As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
- The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
- 3
A place of concentrated activity or influence.
- The head-quarters of the rebellion in the East were at a little town called Hui-lung.
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。