v.  分配，分派，指派〔任务〕

v.  确定〔时间、价值、地点等〕

• assignment

  n. 〔分配的〕任务

  n. 〔学生的〕作业

• on an assignment  执行任务

• He wants to change his job assignment.

  工作安排

• But that afternoon, even though I'd finished my assigned work, I was told to help other colleagues finish their work, too. 分配的任务

• Academic departments vary in their procedures for assigning academic advisers to graduate students. 指派顾问

• She didn't hand in her first two assignments for chemistry, which started her out in the class with a failing grade. 交作业

• If a student takes a course again, they may have to buy a new access code to submit their assignments. 提交作业

• They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student. 打分

• I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students.

  指派给我的工作是照顾新来的学生。

• Jan’s been assigned to the Asian Affairs Bureau. 简被派到亚洲事务部。

• A code was assigned to each batch of work. 每批作业都确定了一个编号。

BrE /əˈsaɪn/

NAmE /əˈsaɪn/