核心畫面

You can think of placement as the moment of putting something into its spot, plus the decision of which spot that should be. A hand sets a vase down on one exact corner of the table: before, the thing had nowhere to be; now it has somewhere. Whatever gets placed — a piece of furniture, an on a page, or a person who needs a home or a job — the picture stays the same: finding a place, and giving it to something.

placement 可以想成「把東西放到它該在的位置」的那一下,加上「決定要放在哪裡」的那個判斷。想像一隻手把花瓶放更多收起placement 可以想成「把東西放到它該在的位置」的那一下,加上「決定要放在哪裡」的那個判斷。想像一隻手把花瓶放到桌子某一角:原本它沒有落腳的地方,現在有了。英文把這個動作變成名詞以後,放的東西可以換——一件家具、版面上的一則廣告,或是一個需要住處、需要工作的人——但畫面都還是同一個:找到一個位置,然後把它安進去。

Two branches

放東西、決定位置

這一族就是核心畫面本身:實際把東西放下去,以及在放下去之前決定放哪裡。

placement (positioning) · noun · B1

Where something is put, or the choice of where to put it.

擺放;位置安排

把人安排到位置上

同樣是「找一個位置放進去」,只是被放的對象從物品換成人;位置也從桌上的一個點,變成生活裡的一個位子——住的地方、工作的缺、課程裡的名額。

placement (finding a home/job) · noun · B1

The act of finding someone a home or a job and arranging it.

安置

原始詞典資料5 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。

placementnoun/ˈpleɪ̯smənt/

  • 1

    The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

  • 2

    A location or position.

    • It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.
  • 3

    The act of matching a person with a job.

    • The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.
  • 4

    A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.

    • During my first placement on Enabling Works on the Curzon Street Station site, I was able to visit the site on many occasions, which allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of the work that goes into a project of this scale.
  • 5

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.

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