department

英 [d?'pɑ?tm(?)nt] 美[d?'pɑrtm?nt]

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復(fù)數(shù):?departments;

department 部門

來自depart, 分開，離開。引申詞義分開，部門。

department: department: [15] English has borrowed department from French département on two completely separate occasions. Originally, in late Middle English, it was used for ‘departure’, but this died out in the mid-17th century. Then in the 18th century it was re-acquired in the different sense ‘distinct division’; Dr Johnson, in his Dictionary 1755, dismisses it as a French term.
department (n.): mid-15c., "a going away, act of leaving," from Old French departement (12c.) "division, sharing out; divorce, parting," from Late Latin departire (see depart). French department meant "group of people" (as well as "departure"), from which English borrowed the sense of "separate division, separate business assigned to someone in a larger organization" (c. 1735). Meaning "separate division of a government" is from 1769. As an administrative district in France, from 1792.

1. She was the only woman in Shell's legal department.: 她是殼牌公司法律事務(wù)部唯一的女性。

2. Officials at the State Department say the issue is urgent.: 國務(wù)院官員說該問題很急迫。

3. She appears nightly on the television news, speaking for the State Department.: 她作為國務(wù)院的發(fā)言人，每晚都會(huì)出現(xiàn)在電視新聞中。

4. He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.: 他把信交給了貿(mào)工部。

5. Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department.: 病人在這個(gè)科看病需要兩個(gè)多小時(shí)的時(shí)間。