facility

将“facility”分解为“fac”和“ility”。联想“fac”与“fact”（事实）相似，表示“ facility”是进行某事所需的基础或条件，就像事实是建立其他事物的基础一样。这样可以帮助记住“facility”指的是设备、设施或便利性。

facility 设施

来自facile, 简单的。即促进事物简化的设施或工具，后词义通用化。

facility (n.)

early 15c., "gentleness, lightness," from Middle French facilité "easiness, ease," from Latin facilitatem (nominative facilitas) "easiness, ease, fluency, willingness," from facilis "easy" (see facile). First in a medical book:

If it be nede forto smyte [the head] wiþ a malle, be it done with esynez or facilite [transl. Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie"]

Its sense in English expanded to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease, quality of being easily done" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something" which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872, via notion of "physical means by which (something) can be easily done."

1. Your camcorder should have these basic features: autofocus, playback facility, zoom lens.

你的便携式摄像机应该具备以下基本功能：自动聚焦、回放功能、变焦镜头。

2. Every facility was laid on to ease their homecoming.

动用了一切设施以缓解他们的回乡之困。

3. This facility is open to both new and existing borrowers.

这套设备向新老借用者开放。

4. It is very useful to have an overdraft facility.

有透支功能用处很大。

5. He and Marcia shared a facility for languages.

他和马西娅都有语言天赋。

【facility, equipment, instrument】
facility: n.指较大的设施、设备，尤指公用的、为大众带来便利的设备。
• The facility at that club includes tennis courts and a swimming pool. 那家俱乐部的体育设施包括网球场地和一个游泳池。
equipment: n.指生产、研究所需要的设备、装置，如各种机器和器材，是不可数名词。
• a factory with modern equipment 具有现代化设备的工厂
instrument: n.乐器，仪器，为某个用途而使用的工具。
• As a flexible actor, he can perform, sing, dance and play several kinds of musical instruments. 作为一个多才多艺的演员，他既可以表演，又会唱歌跳舞，还能够演奏不同种类的乐器。