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单词 assignment
释义
assignment
noun
uk
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/us
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/
B1[C]
apieceofworkgiven to someone,typicallyaspartoftheirstudiesorjob:
（尤指学习或工作方面的）任务，作业
afreelance/photoassignment自由职业／摄影任务
I have a lot ofreadingassignments tocompletebefore the end ofterm.期末前我有大量阅读作业要完成。
[C]
ajobthat someone issentsomewhereto do:
（被派遣出去做的）工作
aforeign/diplomaticassignment外交任命
on assignment
Someone who is on assignment is doing aparticularjoborpieceofwork, usually in aparticularplacewhere they have beensentfor aperiodoftime:
执行任务；（通常指被派遣到特定地点从事一段时间的）工作
Bothjournalistswerekilledwhile on assignment in theregion.
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[U]
theprocessof giving aparticularjoborpieceofworkto someone, or ofsendingsomeone to achosenplaceto do ajob:
分配（任务）；指派（人员）
assignmentofthevarioustasks各种任务的分配
More examples
  • It was ajammyassignment - more of aholidayreally.
  • He took thisaward-winningphotographwhile on assignment in theMiddleEast.
  • His two-year assignment to the MexicoofficestartsinSeptember.
  • She firstvisitedNorway on assignment for thewinterOlympicstenyearsago.
  • Hefellinlovewith theareaafter being there on assignment forNationalGeographic in the 1950s.
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(Definition ofassignmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
assignment
noun
uk
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/us
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/
B1[C]
apieceofworkgiven to someone,typicallyaspartoftheirstudiesorjob
（尤指学习或工作方面的）任务，作业
afreelance/photoassignment自由职业／摄影任务
I have a lot ofreadingassignments tocompletebefore the end ofterm.期末前我有大量阅读作业要完成。
[C]
ajobthat someone issentsomewhereto do
（被派遣出去做的）工作
aforeign/diplomaticassignment外交任命
on assignment
Someone who is on assignment is doing aparticularjoborpieceofwork, usually in aparticularplacewhere they have beensentfor aperiodoftime.
执行任务；（通常指被派遣到特定地点从事一段时间的）工作
Bothjournalistswerekilledbyterroristswhile on assignment in theregion.两名记者在派往这一地区工作期间被恐怖分子杀害。
[U]
theprocessof giving aparticularjoborpieceofworkto someone, or ofsendingsomeone to achosenplaceto do ajob
分配（任务）；指派（人员）
assignmentofthevarioustasks各种任务的分配
More examples
  • It was ajammyassignment - more of aholidayreally.
  • He took thisaward-winningphotographwhile on assignment in the MiddleEast.
  • His two-year assignment to the MexicoofficestartsinSeptember.
  • She firstvisitedNorway on assignment for thewinterOlympics tenyearsago.
  • Hefellinlovewith theareaafter being there on assignment for National Geographic in the 1950s.

assignment| American Dictionary

assignment
noun[C/U]
us
/əˈsɑɪn·mənt/
aparticularjoborresponsibilitygiven to you:
[C]Thehomeworkassignment was toreadChapter2 inourhistorybook.

Idiom

on assignment
(Definition ofassignmentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

assignment| Business English

assignment
noun
uk
/əˈsaɪnmənt/us
[C]
ataskor apieceofworkthat is given to someone to do, often for alimitedperiodoftime:
a six-month assignment
Solving the industry'sinfrastructureproblemswhilesatisfyingshareholdersis going to be atoughassignment.
give sb an assignmentOurteamwas given an assignment tofindthegapsin themarket.
accept/refuse/take on an assignment
carryout/complete/finishan assignment
global/international/overseas, etc. assignmentOne of his firstoverseasassignments was as ajuniorin adelegationto Moscow.
Assessment for thecoursewill bebasedon fourwritten assignmentsand afinalexamination.
[U]
theprocessof giving someone aparticularjob,task, orresponsibility:
Therestructuringwillrequirechangingtheassignment ofresponsibilitiesandreportingrelationships.
[CorU]LAW
theactof giving something thatbelongsto you, such as apropertyor afinancialagreement, to somebodyelse:
The Agreement willterminateautomaticallyin theeventofitsassignment.
Theassignment of alegalleasemust be in theformof adeedto beeffective.
on assignment
someone who is on assignment is doing ajobin aparticularplace, usually for anagreedamountoftime:
Thephotographerdiedwhile on assignment in thewarzone.

See also

deed of assignment
wage assignment
(Definition ofassignmentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofassignment

assignment
Apart from that, there is a suspicion that programming without assignments or side-effects is difficult, or restrictive.
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Intuitively, taking advantage of sequential evaluation of boolean connectors in such a context means mixing enumeration of variable assignments and evaluation of boolean expressions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Therefore, when the base-value assignments are inconsistent with the spreadsheet formulae, every value is logically entailed in every cell, thus rendering the spreadsheet useless.
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A set of constraints range over these variables, which specify the allowed combinations of value assignments.
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A stable solution may then make use of a set of assignments with as low as probability of loss as possible.
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The non-terminal vertices are labelled by propositional variables and the arcs are labeled by the assignments 0 or 1 of the originating variables.
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The second pass, convert-assigned, rewrites references and assignments to assigned variables as explicit structure accesses or mutations.
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Quantification over predicate assignments is realized by iterating over all type-compatible predicate assignments.
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Consequently, the addition of assignments to the back end did not cause any immediate problems.
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The number of experiments needed here and also for nucleic acid assignments strongly depends on the degree of spectral overlap.
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Nevertheless, for purposes of annotating a genome, most people would hope for more specific assignments of function than any of these categories.
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Ambiguous peak assignments are treated as separate distance restraints in the structure calculations, and erroneous assignments are eliminated in iterative cycles.
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In most cases the two analyses predict similar stress assignments.
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Thus, the algorithm searches on a tree where intermediate nodes stand for partial assignments and leaves stand for total ones.
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The others were on shor t-term assignments for a period of one to several months.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithassignment

assignment

These are words often used in combination withassignment.

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committee assignment
Thus, we might hypothesize that as the size of a legislature increases, the value of eachcommitteeassignment increases because there are fewer of them per member.
From theCambridge English Corpus
difficult assignment
For the most part, the more delicate anddifficultassignmentof paternity during this century has fallen upon the courts - long after the birth of the child.
From theCambridge English Corpus
general assignment
Then there are provisions with regard togeneralassignmentof book debts, which will generally be void unless registered.
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