一件事的實際安排
這一家就是那張紙本身，範圍是一件具體的事。
noun · B2
The practical arrangements you have to work out so that a plan involving a lot of people and equipment actually happens: who goes where, at what time, with what, and how they get there.
實際的安排；執行細節
核心畫面
Picture the sheet of paper somebody puts on the table after everyone has agreed on the plan. On it are the unglamorous questions: how many buses, which room, what time the food is ready, where the boxes are tonight, who carries what. Nothing on that sheet is the idea, and nothing on it is the reason for doing the thing — but the idea does not happen without it. That sheet is logistics. Make it bigger and it becomes a warehouse full of parcels; make it older and it becomes an army trying to get bread and boots over a mountain. The size changes; the questions do not.
可以想成大家都同意了那個計畫之後，有人把一張紙放到桌上。紙上寫的全是不光彩的問題：幾台車、哪間教室、餐點幾點好、今天…更多收起
可以想成大家都同意了那個計畫之後，有人把一張紙放到桌上。紙上寫的全是不光彩的問題：幾台車、哪間教室、餐點幾點好、今天晚上箱子放哪裡、誰搬什麼。紙上沒有一項是那個點子，也沒有一項是做這件事的理由。但少了這張紙，點子就不會發生。這張紙就是 logistics。把它放大，它變成一座塞滿包裹的倉庫；把它往回推，它變成一支想把麵包和靴子運過山的軍隊。規模會變，紙上的問題不會變。From the word’s history
From French logistique, coined or made popular around 1830 by the military writer Jomini, built on logis, a lodging place — the word appears in titles such as marechal des logis, the officer of lodging. The first questions it named were where the people sleep and how the supplies get there, which is still what the sheet of paper asks.
這個字來自法文 logistique，一八三○年前後由軍事作家 Jomini 造出或推廣。字根是 logis，住宿的地方，出現在 marechal des logis（管住宿的軍官）這類職稱裡。所以它最早要回答的問題就是「人今天睡哪裡、東西怎麼送到」。這正好就是那張紙上寫的東西。也就是說，軍事用法是這條線的起點，商業和日常用法是後來長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for logistics, etymology 1 (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1114878154:28911): From French logistique, coined or popularized 1830 by Antoine-Henri Jomini from logis (lodging place).
Two branches
把東西送到該去的地方
同一張紙，但範圍從一件事放大成一份長期的工作，於是它變成一個行業或一個軍種的職責。
noun · B2
The business of moving goods from where they are made to where they are needed, including storing them and keeping track of them on the way.
物流（產業）
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。
logisticsnoun詞源 1/ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/
- 1
The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from their point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of satisfying customer requirements.
- logistics company
- logistics management
- 2
governmentmilitarypoliticsThe procurement, supply, maintenance, and transportation of equipment, facilities, and personnel.
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。