desk

• n. 机；ヘルプデスク；編集委員会；（米）説教壇；譜面台
• adj.机の；机上用；歩行用

語源はdisk、丸い円盤と同じ。円卓、机が語源。

desk

desk: [14] Desk, disc, dish, and dais – strange bedfellows semantically – form a little gang of words going back ultimately, via Latin discus, to Greek dískos ‘quoit’. Desk seems perhaps the least likely descendant of ‘quoit’, but it came about like this: Latin discus was used metaphorically, on the basis of its circular shape, for a ‘tray’ or ‘platter, dish’; and when such a tray was set on legs, it became a table. (German tisch ‘table’ comes directly from Vulgar Latin in this sense.) By the time English acquired it from medieval Latin it seems already to have developed the specialized meaning ‘table for writing or reading on’.
=> dais, disc, dish

desk (n.)

mid-14c., from Medieval Latin desca "table to write on" (mid-13c.), from Latin discus "quoit, platter, dish," from Greek diskos (see disk (n.)). The Medieval Latin is perhaps via Italian desco. Used figuratively of office or clerical work since 1797; desk job is first attested 1965.

1. He folded the papers and stuck them in his desk drawer.

彼は書類を畳んで、自分の机の引き出しに詰め込んだ。

2.They will need a reasonable amount of desk area and good light.

彼らは、広い面積のデスクを置く場所と十分な照明を必要とします。

3.He gave the girl at the desk the message.

テーブルのそばの女の子にメモを渡した。

4.Onhis desk is a mass of books and papers.

彼の机の上にはたくさんの本や書類があります。

5.He had gone to the reception desk ，presamably to check out.

彼はすでにフロントに行っているので、チェックアウトの手続きをしなければならないかもしれません。