[每日] bailiwick (n) 能力範圍
Word of the Day (Sunday October 19, 2008)
bailiwick \BAY-luh-wik\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/fe4UH
1. A person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest,
skill, or work.
2. The office or district of a bailiff.
I'll give it a try, but this is not my bailiwick.
-- Sue Grafton, 'L' Is for Lawless
He "professed ignorance, as of something outside my bailiwick."
-- Marc Aronson, "Wharton and the House of Scribner: The Novelist
as a Pain in the Neck", New York Times, January 2, 1994
Fund-raising was Cliff's bailiwick, anyway, and he seemed to have
it in hand.
-- Curt Sampson, The Masters
Bailiwick comes from Middle English baillifwik, from baillif,
"bailiff" (ultimately from Latin bajulus, "porter, carrier") +
wik, "town," from Old English wic, from Latin vicus, "village."
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