duty

• n. 責任；[稅收] 關稅；職務
• n. (Duty)人名；(英)迪蒂

來自due, 欠債的，應當的。引申詞義責任，稅。

duty

duty: [13] Duty comes from Anglo-Norman dueté. This was a derivative of Old French deu ‘owed’ (source of English due [13]), which in turn came from Latin dēbitus, past participle of dēbēre ‘owe’ and source of English debit and debt. (Latin dēbēre was originally a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and habēre ‘have’, literally ‘have away’, that is ‘keep in one’s possession what belongs to someone else’.) So etymologically one’s duty is what one ‘owes’ to others.
=> debit, debt, due

duty (n.)

late 13c., from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed; proper, just," from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe" (see debt). Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.

1. They clocked off duty and left at ten to three.

他們打卡下班，于2點50分離開。

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2. The first duty of a director is to recce his location.

主管的第一項任務是熟悉所在地區的情況。

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3. He had a third examination and was declared unfit for duty.

他接受了第三次檢查，被告知不宜上班。

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4. My mother waxed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.

我母親大談為妻之道。

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5. The Night Duty Officer was ready to clock off.

值夜班的警員準備打卡下班。

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