Facility
[fə'sɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
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同義詞及近義詞：
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.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Ease, address, readiness, quickness, adroitness, dexterity, pliancy
ANT:Labor, effort, awkwardness, difficulty
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例句/造句/用法:
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable elevation, with facility and safety. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It spoke English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Hebrew with equal facility. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The gentleman repeated his salutation, stooping, that it might reach her ear with more facility. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If it commonly brings along with it the necessity of borrowing, it likewise brings with it the facility of doing so. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Transport facilities were limited, and most of them arrived in Europe with a radiant air of privilege. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Manifestly this intercommunicating series of Judaized communities had very great financial and political facilities. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- In America the new subscriber finds his need anticipated and the facilities provided. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This gave him unusual facilities, for that country, for concentrating his forces to his right. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The boys in those days had extraordinary facilities for travel. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
校對:桑福德