facility

équipements, installations

Matériel, locaux ou services mis à disposition pour permettre certaines activités.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : amenities

Expressions courantes : sports facility, parking facility, cooking facility

établissement, centre

Bâtiment ou lieu consacré à une activité particulière, comme les soins ou la fabrication de produits.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : center, establishment

Expressions courantes : medical facility, research facility, production facility

toilettes

Façon polie de désigner les toilettes, généralement avec un mot au pluriel en anglais.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : toilets, restrooms

Expressions courantes : use the facilities, toilet facility

facilité, aptitude

Capacité à faire ou à apprendre quelque chose facilement et avec aisance.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : facility for something/doing something (She has a facility for learning languages.); facility with something (He showed great facility with numbers.)

Synonymes : aptitude, skill, talent

Expressions courantes : facility for languages, natural facility, remarkable facility, facility of expression