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Assignation
这是一个相当正式的词,但并不表示与assignment严格相同——在“分派”这一层意义上,assignation能够成为assignment的替代词:the assignation/assignment of the task to his deputy(给他的代理人分派任务)。然而,在“被分配的任务”(或“分配给某人的职位或勤务”)这个意义上,assignation不能成为assignment的替换词:The assignment was easy to complete.(这个任务容易完成),但不能说The assignation was easy to complete.
但assignation通常的意思是“约会或会面”,特别是浪漫的秘密约会:
It belongs to one war-scarred elderly American who makes the journey almost daily, know his favourite seat and the first name of the air hostess. For two pins, you think, he will slip her a packet of Lucky Strikes and make an assignation with her behind the commissary. – John le Carre, The Little Dummer Girl
他是个带有战争伤痕的上了年纪的美国人,几乎每天旅行,知道自己偏爱的座位和空中小姐的名字。你想,为了两个小东西,他会暗中塞给她一包“走好运”,并背着那个代主教,与她确定一个约会。——约翰·勒·卡雷,《敲鼓的小女孩》