office

英 ['?f?s] 美['?f?s]

CET4TEM4考研CET6高頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?offices;

office 辦公室

來自拉丁語officium,辦公室，工作地，職責，責任，來自opificium拼寫變體，來自opi,工作，操作，詞源同opus,operate,-fic,做，詞源同do,fact.即辦公的地方。

office: office: [13] Office comes from a Latin source that originally meant ‘do work’. This was officium, a reduced form of an earlier *opificium, which was compounded from opus ‘work’ (source of English opera, operate, etc) and -ficium, a derivative of facere ‘do’ (source of English fact, faction, etc). That original literal sense has now disappeared from English (which got the word via Old French office), but it has left its mark in ‘position, post, job’ and ‘place where work is done’, both of which existed in Latin.

English has a small cluster of derivatives, including officer [14], official [14], officiate [17], and officious [16].
=> fact, factory, fashion, opera, operate
office (n.): mid-13c., "a post, an employment to which certain duties are attached," from Anglo-French and Old French ofice "place or function; divine service" (12c. in Old French) or directly from Latin officium "service, kindness, favor; official duty, function, business; ceremonial observance," (in Church Latin, "church service"), literally "work-doing," from ops (genitive opis) "power, might, abundance, means" (related to opus "work;" see opus) + stem of facere "do, perform" (see factitious). Meaning "place for conducting business" first recorded 1560s. Office hours attested from 1841.

2. His office was in keeping with his station and experience.: 他的辦公室與其身份和閱歷相稱。

3. Powell's unusual journey to high office is an inspiration to millions.: 鮑威爾升任高官的不尋常歷程對數以百萬計的人都是一個激勵。

5. The Foreign Office in London has expressed surprise at these allegations.: 位于倫敦的英國外交部對這些說法表示驚訝.