office

来自拉丁语officium,办公室，工作地，职责，责任，来自opificium拼写变体，来自opi,工作，操作，词源同opus,operate,-fic,做，词源同do,fact.即办公的地方。

office

office: [13] Office comes from a Latin source that originally meant ‘do work’. This was officium, a reduced form of an earlier *opificium, which was compounded from opus ‘work’ (source of English opera, operate, etc) and -ficium, a derivative of facere ‘do’ (source of English fact, faction, etc). That original literal sense has now disappeared from English (which got the word via Old French office), but it has left its mark in ‘position, post, job’ and ‘place where work is done’, both of which existed in Latin.

English has a small cluster of derivatives, including officer [14], official [14], officiate [17], and officious [16].
=> fact, factory, fashion, opera, operate

office (n.)

mid-13c., "a post, an employment to which certain duties are attached," from Anglo-French and Old French ofice "place or function; divine service" (12c. in Old French) or directly from Latin officium "service, kindness, favor; official duty, function, business; ceremonial observance," (in Church Latin, "church service"), literally "work-doing," from ops (genitive opis) "power, might, abundance, means" (related to opus "work;" see opus) + stem of facere "do, perform" (see factitious). Meaning "place for conducting business" first recorded 1560s. Office hours attested from 1841.

1. One of the office girls was down with the flu.

一位女职员得了流感。

2. His office was in keeping with his station and experience.

他的办公室与其身份和阅历相称。

3. Powell's unusual journey to high office is an inspiration to millions.

鲍威尔升任高官的不寻常历程对数以百万计的人都是一个激励。

4. He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk.

他把我叫到他的办公室私下谈了谈。

5. The Foreign Office in London has expressed surprise at these allegations.

位于伦敦的英国外交部对这些说法表示惊讶.