facility

• n. 設施；設備；容易；靈巧

來自facile, 簡單的。即促進事物簡化的設施或工具，後詞義通用化。

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] wiþ 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.

你的便攜式攝像機應該具備以下基本功能：自動聚焦、回放功能、變焦鏡頭。

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2. Every facility was laid on to ease their homecoming.

動用了一切設施以緩解他們的回鄉之困。

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3. This facility is open to both new and existing borrowers.

這套設備向新老借用者開放。

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4. It is very useful to have an overdraft facility.

有透支功能用處很大。

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5. He and Marcia shared a facility for languages.

他和馬西婭都有語言天賦。

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