facility

英 [f?'s?l?ti] 美[f?'s?l?ti]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?facilities;

facility 設(shè)施

來自facile, 簡單的。即促進(jìn)事物簡化的設(shè)施或工具，后詞義通用化。

facility (n.): early 15c., "gentleness, lightness," from Middle French facilité "easiness, ease," from Latin facilitatem (nominative facilitas) "easiness, ease, fluency, willingness," from facilis "easy" (see facile). First in a medical book:
If it be nede forto smyte [the head] wit a malle, be it done with esynez or facilite [transl. Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie"]
Its sense in English expanded to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease, quality of being easily done" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something" which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872, via notion of "physical means by which (something) can be easily done."

1. Your camcorder should have these basic features: autofocus, playback facility, zoom lens.: 你的便攜式攝像機(jī)應(yīng)該具備以下基本功能：自動(dòng)聚焦、回放功能、變焦鏡頭。

2. Every facility was laid on to ease their homecoming.: 動(dòng)用了一切設(shè)施以緩解他們的回鄉(xiāng)之困。

3. This facility is open to both new and existing borrowers.: 這套設(shè)備向新老借用者開放。