Facility
[fə'sɪləti]
解释:
(noun.) a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; 'a cell phone with internet facility'.
(noun.) something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service; 'catering facilities'; 'toilet facilities'; 'educational facilities'.
(noun.) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; 'the assembly plant is an enormous facility'.
(noun.) a natural effortlessness; 'they conversed with great facility'; 'a happy readiness of conversation'--Jane Austen.
手打:利奥波德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
(n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
(n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
(n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
(n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
沙琳编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Easiness (in doing any thing), ease.[2]. Readiness, dexterity, expertness, quickness, knack, ability.[3]. Affability, condescension, complaisance, urbanity, civility, politeness.[4]. Pliancy, ductility, flexibility.[5]. Means, resource, appliance, convenience, advantage.
博妮塔校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Ease, address, readiness, quickness, adroitness, dexterity, pliancy
ANT:Labor, effort, awkwardness, difficulty
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例句:
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable elevation, with facility and safety. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Kindnesses all my life, echoed Rawdon, scratching down the words, and quite amazed at his own facility of composition. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- He neve r attained any literary facility, and was always more successful in conveying his observations by maps, drawings, and con versation than by books. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It spoke English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Hebrew with equal facility. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The gentleman repeated his salutation, stooping, that it might reach her ear with more facility. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- If it commonly brings along with it the necessity of borrowing, it likewise brings with it the facility of doing so. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Many people now charge their own batteries because of lack of facilities; but I believe central stations will find in this work very soon the largest part of their load. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Being in a narrow street and a congested district, the plant needed special facilities for the handling of coal and ashes, as well as for ventilation and forced draught. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Transport facilities were limited, and most of them arrived in Europe with a radiant air of privilege. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Manifestly this intercommunicating series of Judaized communities had very great financial and political facilities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In America the new subscriber finds his need anticipated and the facilities provided. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This gave him unusual facilities, for that country, for concentrating his forces to his right. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The boys in those days had extraordinary facilities for travel. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It, and it alone, had the facilities for organizing _will_, for the need of which the empire was falling to pieces like a piece of rotten cloth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Improved factory facilities were introduced; new tools were made, and various types of machines were designed so that phonographs can now be bought at prices ranging from $10 to $200. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
校对:桑福德