bailiwick
英['be?l?w?k]
美['bel?,w?k]
- n. 范圍；執行官之職
英文詞源
- bailiwick (n.)
- "district of a bailiff," early 15c., baillifwik, from bailiff (q.v.) + Middle English form of Old English wic "village" (see wick (n.2)). Figurative sense of "one's natural or proper sphere" is first recorded 1843.