- 1環境衛生（汙水、垃圾的公共處理；不是洗手那種個人衛生）
Sanitation is the public work of keeping a town healthy by taking away human waste, dirty water, and rubbish, and treating them so they do not spread disease. It is bigger than washing your hands — that is personal hygiene. Engineers talk about sanitation systems: toilets, sewers, treatment plants. In news about poor places you will often see clean water and sanitation as a pair. Though actually, people stretch it: a city's sanitation department may also collect household trash, not only sewage, and some speakers use it loosely for any public . From sanitary plus the ending -ation. It has nothing to do with being sane.
From the word’s history
sanitary + -ation.
sanitary「衛生的」加 -ation。
組成From sanitary (clean enough to protect health) + -ation (the system or practice of doing that).
同家族的字
- sanitarythe stem: clean enough to protect health
- sanitizethe verb: make something free of germs — related, but usually about surfaces, not sewers
- sanitariumsame health-and-cleanliness family
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
sanitationnoun/ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən/
- 1
The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
- To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
- 2
The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。