facility

設備、施設

特定の活動ができるように用意された設備、部屋やサービス。

やさしい英語で： Equipment, rooms, or services provided so people can do particular activities.

• The hotel has excellent cooking facilities.
• Parking facilities are available nearby.
• Our school needs better sports facilities.

類義語： amenities

よく使う表現： sports facility, parking facility, cooking facility

施設

医療や製品の製造など、特定の活動に使われる建物や場所。

やさしい英語で： A building or place used for a particular activity, such as medical care or making products.

• They built a new medical facility.
• The research facility employs two hundred people.
• Several production facilities closed last year.

類義語： center, establishment

よく使う表現： medical facility, research facility, production facility

お手洗い、トイレ

トイレを丁寧にいう表現。英語では普通、複数形で使う。

やさしい英語で： A toilet or bathroom, usually referred to politely in the plural.

• Where are the facilities?
• You may use the facilities downstairs.
• The restaurant’s facilities were clean.

類義語： toilets, restrooms

よく使う表現： use the facilities, toilet facility

才能、器用さ

何かを容易に上手に行ったり、学んだりできる能力。

やさしい英語で： An ability to do or learn something easily and well.

• She has a facility for languages.
• His facility with numbers impressed us.
• The young musician played with remarkable facility.

使い方： facility for something/doing something (She has a facility for learning languages.); facility with something (He showed great facility with numbers.)

類義語： aptitude, skill, talent

よく使う表現： facility for languages, natural facility, remarkable facility, facility of expression