department

• n. 部門; 部門; 学部; 課; 局.

departから、分離する、離れる。separate, departmentから派生。

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 .

彼女はシェル社の法律事務部の唯一の女性だ。

2.Officials at the State Department say the issue is urgent.

国務省当局者はこの問題が切迫していると述べた。

3.She appears nightly on the television news，speaking for the State Department .

彼女は国務省のスポークスマンとして毎晩テレビニュースに登場する。

4.He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.

彼は貿易部に手紙を渡した。

5.Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department .

患者はこの科で診察するのに2時間以上かかります。