You can picture a set of creatures harnessed side by side, all pulling in the same direction at once. That image of bodies yoked to one shared effort is the heart of the word: first the literal animals pulling a cart, then any group of people pulling together toward one goal — on a sports field, in an office — and finally the act of joining up to pull together with someone.
From the word’s history
In Old English 'team' meant a set of draught animals yoked together to pull a plough or cart. From creatures pulling in unison, it stretched to any group of people working together toward one goal — the modern 'group of people' sense emerging by the 16th century. So the cart-animals sense, though rare today, is the literal root that all the others grow from.
古英語的 tēam 原指一組套在一起、共同拉犁或拉車的牲畜。從「牲口同步使力」延伸到「一群人朝同一目標合力」，現代「團隊」的意思約在十六世紀才出現。所以今天少見的「拉車牲畜組」這一義，其實是字面的根，其他意思都從它長出來。
etymonline.com/word/team；Wiktionary 'team'（古英語 tēam「套軛的牲畜；後嗣」）
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Teamname
- 1
A river in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, which flows into the River Tyne. It has other names further upstream in County Durham.
teamnoun詞源 1/ˈtiːm/
- 1
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
- It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- 2
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team.
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- 3
obsoleteA group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
- she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her
- a long team of snowy swans on high
- 4
obsoletelawA royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
- TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
- 5
A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
- As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.
teamverb詞源 1/ˈtiːm/
- 1
To form a group, as for sports or work.
- They teamed to complete the project.
- 2
To go together well; to harmonize.
- Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.
- 3
To convey or haul with a team.
- to team lumber
- the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river
- 4
To form together into a team.
- to team oxen
- 5
To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
teamintj詞源 1/ˈtiːm/
- 1
video-gamesUsed to propose that another player team up with the speaker.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- teem
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。