排出先後
兩個意思都站在同一條隊伍旁邊，差別在你看的是整條隊伍，還是最前面那一位。
verb · B2
To look at several tasks, problems or needs, decide which ones matter most, and put them in that order so the most important ones get dealt with first.
排優先順序
核心畫面
You can think of prioritize as lining a pile of things up into a queue. Whoever stands at the front gets dealt with first. The lining up is the action itself: you are deciding the order, not finishing the work. From that one picture you can look two ways, at how the whole queue is arranged, or at which single thing was pulled to the front.
prioritize 的畫面可以想成把一堆事情排成一條隊伍。誰站第一個，誰就先被處理。排隊這個動作本身就是這個字的重…更多收起
prioritize 的畫面可以想成把一堆事情排成一條隊伍。誰站第一個，誰就先被處理。排隊這個動作本身就是這個字的重點：你在決定先後，而不是在動手做完。從這個畫面往兩邊看，一邊是整條隊伍怎麼排，一邊是誰被拉到最前面。From the word’s history
Prioritize is priority plus -ize, literally to make something a priority. It is a recent word, recorded from 1967 in United States government language and spreading through the 1970s and 1980s.
prioritize 由 priority（優先的事）加上 -ize（使變成…）構成，字面上就是「把某件事變成優先」。資料記載它 1967 年才出現在美國官方用語裡，1970、80 年代才普及，所以它是個很新的字。
Wiktionary entry 'prioritize' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:722947821): 'From priority + -ize. First attested in 1967 as U.S. government jargon.'
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