assignation
assignation 英 [ˌæsɪgˈneɪʃn] 美 [ˌæsɪɡˈneʃən]
n. 分配；约会；指定；[经] 转让
名词复数:assignations
- An assignation is a secret meeting. You might have an assignation with your new girlfriend if the two of you were keeping your relationship private.
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- n. 分配；约会；指定；[经] 转让
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1. Aged 14, he intercepted a girl named Rhonda Phillips on her way to an after-show assignation with his brother, Jackie.
14岁时，他拦住了一个叫郎达 菲尔普斯的姑娘的路，她是演出结束后分配好的女孩，正在去他哥哥房间的路上。
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2. The crude assignation of territory, after just a few weeks of study by British officials, may also have been too great a handicap to overcome.
粗枝大叶的领土划分——英国当局经过短短几周的考察后划分的——可能也是一个难以克服的巨大障碍。
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3. My bluff was called one sunny morning when our beauty editor swept in from a London fashion week assignation.
我的骗局在一个阳光明媚的早晨被揭穿了，当时我们漂亮的编辑从伦敦时装周回来。
- assignation (n.) early 14c., "appointment by authority," from Old French assignacion (14c., Modern French assignation), from Latin assignationem (nominative assignatio) "an assigning, allotment," noun of action from past participle stem of assignare/adsignare "to mark out, to allot by sign, assign, award," from ad "to" (see ad-) + signare "make a sign," from signum "identifying mark, sign" (see sign (n.)).
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