office
/ˈɒfɪs/noun
1
- a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place of business for non-manual work办公室：
computers first appeared in offices in the late 1970s
20世纪70年代末, 电脑首次出现在办公室里
as modifier an office job.办公室工作。
1.1
- the local centre of a large business（企业的）办事处：
a company which has four US and four European offices.
一家有四个美国办事处和四个欧洲办事处的公司。
1.2
- a room, department, or building used to provide a particular service（提供某项服务的）室, 处, 局：
a ticket office
售票处
a Post Office.
邮局。
1.3
- N. Amer. the consulting room of a professional person〈北美〉（专业人士）咨询处。
1.4
offices
Brit. dated the parts of a house given over to household work or to storage〈英, 旧〉家务间; 储藏室。
1.5
- （一般作usual offices）Brit. dated used euphemistically to refer to a toilet〈英, 旧, 婉〉洗手间。
2
- a position of authority, trust, or service, typically one of a public nature官职, 公职：
the office of Director General of Fair Trading.
公平贸易局局长的职位。
2.1
- mass noun tenure of an official position, especially that of a Minister of State or of the party forming the government（尤指国家部长或执政党中官职的）任期：
a year ago, when the President took office
一年前总统就职的时候
he was ejected from office in 1988.
1988年他被革职。
2.2
Office
the quarters, staff, or collective authority of a particular government department or agency（作为行政机构的）部：the Foreign Office.
（英国）外交部。
3
- （一般作offices）a service or kindness done for another person or group of people（为他人所做的）好事。
3.1
- dated a duty attaching to one's position; a task or function〈旧〉职责; 任务; 作用：
the offices of a nurse
护士的职责
his family had escaped to Canada through the good offices of a Jewish agency in 1923.
1923年他的家属已在一家犹太人机构的好心帮助之下逃往加拿大。
4
- （亦作Divine Office）Christian Church the series of services of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) daily by Catholic priests, members of religious orders, and other clergy【基督教】（天主教牧师、教徒等）每日的祈祷。
4.1
- one of these services祈祷：
the noon office.
午间祈祷。
词源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin officium 'performance of a task' （in medieval Latin also 'office, divine service'）, based on opus 'work' + facere 'do'.