他們辦公的那棟房子
英文很習慣讓一個團體的名字，順手指向他們待的地方——school、office 都是這樣。這群人有了固定的門牌以後，那棟建築就跟著叫 legation。
noun · C1
The building, or the set of offices, where such a group of officials works.
使節團的館舍
核心畫面
A way to hold this word: a government picks a handful of people and sends them away to live in another country and speak for home. That small sent-out group is the heart of the word. They need somewhere to sit, so they take a house with a flag over the door — and before long people point at the house and call it by the group's name too.
可以想成這樣一個畫面：一個政府挑出幾個人，把他們派到別的國家去，替自己說話。那一小群「被派出去的人」就是這個字的中心…更多收起
可以想成這樣一個畫面：一個政府挑出幾個人，把他們派到別的國家去，替自己說話。那一小群「被派出去的人」就是這個字的中心。他們總得有地方辦公，於是租下一棟門上掛旗的房子——久了，大家指著那棟房子，也用同一個名字叫它。From the word’s history
The supplied entry takes legation from Latin legatio, the act of sending someone out, the same root that gives legate, the person sent. The sending comes first; the group and then their house take their name from it.
來源說 legation 出自拉丁文 lēgātiō，意思是「派遣出去」這件事，跟 legate（被派出去的使節）同一條根。先有「派出去」，才有被派出去的那群人，最後連他們的房子也沿用了這個名字。
Wiktionary entry for legation (noun), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1186721443, supplied in this packet
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noun · C1
A group of officials sent by their government to work in another country and to speak for their own country there.
外交使節團