schedule

• vt. 安排，計劃；編製目錄；將……列入計劃表
• n. 時間表；計劃表；一覽表

來自拉丁語 schedula,小紙條，來自希臘語 skhizein,切，分開，來自 PIE*skei,切，分，詞源同 shed,science,scythe.詞義由小紙條引申詞義便箋，便條，日程表等。

schedule

schedule: [14] Late Latin scedula meant ‘small piece of paper’. It was a diminutive form of Latin sceda ‘papyrus leaf, piece of paper, page’, itself a borrowing from Greek skhedē. By the time it reached English via Old French cedule it had moved on semantically to ‘small piece of paper with writing on it, used as a ticket or label’; and this subsequently developed through ‘supplementary sheet giving a summary, list of additional points, etc’ to any ‘list giving details of what has been arranged’.

Until around 1800 the word was pronounced /sed-/; but then in Britain, apparently under French influence, it changed to /shed-/, while Americans reverted to the original Greek with /sked-/.

schedule (n.)

late 14c., sedule, cedule "ticket, label, slip of paper with writing on it," from Old French cedule (Modern French cédule), from Late Latin schedula "strip of paper" (in Medieval Latin also "a note, schedule"), diminutive of Latin scheda, scida "one of the strips forming a papyrus sheet," from Greek skhida "splinter," from stem of skhizein "to cleave, split" (see shed (v.)). Also from the Latin word are Spanish cédula, German Zettel.

The notion is of slips of paper attached to a document as an appendix (a sense maintained in U.S. tax forms). The specific meaning "printed timetable" is first recorded 1863 in railway use. Modern spelling is a 15c. imitation of Latin, but pronunciation remained "sed-yul" for centuries afterward; the modern British pronunciation ("shed-yul") is from French influence, while the U.S. pronunciation ("sked-yul") is from the practice of Webster, based on the Greek original.

schedule (v.)

"make a schedule of, 1855; include in a schedule, 1862; from schedule (n.). Related: Scheduled; scheduling.

1. Mitchel's schedule had not permitted him to take time off.

米切爾的日程安排使他無法休假。

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2. It is the mother who is expected to reorganize her busy schedule.

應該讓母親來重新安排自己緊張的日程。

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3. The election was held six months ahead of schedule.

選舉提前了6個月舉行。

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4. It was an exhausting schedule she had set herself.

她給自己安排了叫人筋疲力盡的日程。

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5. He had been unable to keep to his schedule.

他沒能遵循自己的計劃。

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