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Your purview is the area your job, your power, or your knowledge covers — the limits of what is yours to deal with, or what you can fairly claim to know. If something is within your purview, it is your business. If it is outside your purview, it is not your job, or you do not know enough.
Your purview is the areaPurview(職權範圍)指的是那個範圍 your job, your power, or your knowledge covers你的工作、你的職權，或你的知識所涵蓋到的 — the limits of what is yours to deal with, or what you can fairly claim to know——也就是哪些事該由你來處理，或你能理直氣壯說自己懂的界線。 If something is within your purview如果一件事在你的purview之內， it is your business那就是你該管的事。 If it is outside your purview如果它在你的purview之外， it is not your job那就不是你的工作， or you do not know enough或是你懂得不夠多。
Lawyers and officials also use it for the reach of a law or a rule: within the purview of this Act. It is a formal, office-and-court word. Ordinary people more often say “that’s not my job” or “that’s not my area.” Though actually, English speakers sometimes treat it as a slightly softer no: “That’s outside my purview” can mean “please ask someone else,” without sounding rude.
Lawyers and officials also use it律師和官員也會用這個字 for the reach of a law or a rule來講一條法律或規定的涵蓋範圍： within the purview of this Act像within the purview of this Act(在本法的規範範圍內)。 It is a formal, office-and-court word這是個正式的字，常出現在公文和法庭裡。 Ordinary people more often say "that's not my job" or "that's not my area."一般人比較常說「那不是我的工作」或「那不是我的領域」。 Though actually不過其實， English speakers sometimes treat it as a slightly softer no說英文的人有時候會拿它當成比較委婉的拒絕： "That's outside my purview" can mean "please ask someone else,"'That's outside my purview'(這不在我的職權範圍內)可以是「請你問別人」的意思， without sounding rude而且不會顯得沒禮貌。
Do not use it for a view from a window; that is just a view. The word was later pulled toward view in people’s minds, but the old core is “what is provided for / what the rule covers.”
Do not use it for a view from a window不要拿它來講從窗戶看出去的景色， that is just a view那就只是個view(景色)而已。 The word was later pulled toward view in people's minds這個字後來在大家心裡被拉去跟view(景色)聯想在一起， but the old core is "what is provided for / what the rule covers."但它原本的核心意思其實是「規定裡準備好要處理的、規則所涵蓋的」。
組成From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”) or purveu que (“provided that”), from Old French porveü, past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō. Later influenced by view.
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。
purviewnoun/ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
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lawThe enacting part of a statute.
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lawThe scope of a statute.
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Scope or range of interest or control.
- Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
- Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.
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Range of understanding.
- Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.
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。