station

英 [ˈsteɪ.ʃən]      美 [ˈsteɪ.ʃən]
  • n. 车站;驻地;地位;身分
  • vt. 配置;安置;驻扎
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station 火车站,汽车站,局,所,岗位

来自拉丁语 stare,站立,来自 PIE*sta,站立,使固定,词源同 stand,state.-ation,名词后缀。引 申诸相关词义。

station
station: [14] A station is etymologically a ‘standing’, hence a ‘place for standing’ – a guard who takes up his ‘station’ outside a building goes and ‘stands’ there. The word comes via Old French station from Latin statiō ‘standing’, a descendant of the base *stā- ‘stand’ (to which English stand is related). Various metaphorical senses emerged in Latin, such as ‘post, job’ and ‘abode, residence’, but ‘stopping place for vehicles’ is a post-Latin development.

It came out of an earlier ‘stopping place on a journey’, and is first recorded in English at the end of the 18th century, in the USA, with reference to coach routes. The application to ‘railway stations’ dates from the 1830s. The notion of ‘standing still’ is preserved in the derived adjective stationary [15].

=> constant, instant, stand, state, stationary, stationery, statue
station (v.)
"to assign a post or position to," 1748, from station (n.). Related: Stationed; stationing.
station (n.)
late 13c., "place which one normally occupies," from Old French stacion, estacion "site, location; station of the Cross; stop, standstill," from Latin stationem (nominative statio) "a standing, standing firm; a post, job, position; military post; a watch, guard, sentinel; anchorage, port" (related to stare "to stand"), from PIE *ste-ti-, suffixed form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

Meaning "each of a number of holy places visited in succession by pilgrims" is from late 14c., as in Station of the Cross (1550s). Meaning "fixed uniform distance in surveying" is from 1570s. Sense of "status, rank" is from c. 1600. Meaning "military post" in English is from c. 1600. The meaning "place where people are stationed for some special purpose" (as in polling station) is first recorded 1823. Radio station is from 1912; station break, pause in broadcasting to give the local station a chance to identify itself, is from 1942.

The meaning "regular stopping place" is first recorded 1797, in reference to coach routes; applied to railroads 1830. Station-master is from 1836. Station wagon in the automobile sense is first recorded 1929, from earlier use for a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers to and from railroad stations (1894). Station house "police station" is attested from 1836.
1. His office was in keeping with his station and experience.
他的办公室与其身份和阅历相称。
2. The money to build the power station ought to have been sufficient.
建设电站的资金本该足够了。
3. The railway station smelt powerfully of cats and drains.
火车站上有冲鼻的猫味和臭水沟味。
4. At the police station, I was charged with assault.
在警察局,我被指控殴打他人。
5. They arrested the men and frog-marched them to the local police station.
他们逮捕了这些人,并把他们押送到当地警察局。

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