2N-COUNT [oft n NOUN] [NOUN to-infinitive](组织提供的)附加服务,特色服务;(机器的)功能 A facility is something such as an additional service provided by an organization or an extra feature on a machine which is useful but not essential. (组织提供的)附加服务,特色服务;(机器的)功能
It is very useful to have an overdraft facility.
有透支功能用处很大。
One of the new models has the facility to reproduce speech as well as text.
新型号中有一款具备复读和文本复制的功能。
3N-COUNT [usually singular, usu Nfor n, NOUN to-infinitive]天资;才能;天赋 If you have a facility for something, for example learning a language, you find it easy to do. 天资;才能;天赋
He and Marcia shared a facility for languages.
他和马西娅都有语言天赋。
Smell is a very basic sense but humans have lost much of the facility to use it properly.