核心畫面

Picture a calendar with some days marked for work and some left free. A workday is one of the marked ones. Then look closer at a single marked day: only part of it is actually spent working, from the moment you start to the moment you stop. The word can point at the whole marked day, or at the working block inside it — and the sentence around it tells you which.

可以想成一本行事曆,有些日子標了要上班,有些留白。workday 就是被標起來的那種日子。再把鏡頭拉近到其中一天:真更多收起可以想成一本行事曆,有些日子標了要上班,有些留白。workday 就是被標起來的那種日子。再把鏡頭拉近到其中一天:真正在工作的只有其中一段,從開始到結束。這個字可以指整個被標起來的那一天,也可以指那一天裡工作的那一段。要看句子在數天數還是數時數。

From the word’s history

From Old English weorcdaeg, literally work plus day; both parts are still visible in the modern spelling.

這個字可以追到古英語 weorcdæġ,就是 work 加 day。兩個部分到今天都還看得出來,所以意思很透明:跟工作綁在一起的那一天。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:855855794): From Middle English werkdai, from Old English weorcdaeg, equivalent to work + day.

From the picture

那一天裡工作的那一段

把鏡頭從整張行事曆推進到單獨一天裡面,數的東西就從天數換成時數。同一個字,範圍縮小了一層。

noun · B1

The amount of time you spend working in one day, counted from when you start until you stop.

一天的工作時數

Also in this word

noun · B1

A day of the week when most people go to work — usually Monday to Friday, and not a weekend day or a public holiday.

工作日/上班日

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。

workdaynoun

  • 1

    Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek.

    • It will take five workdays to process your application.
  • 2

    That part of a day in which work is done.

    • My workday is 8 hours.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。