facility

n. 设施；设备；容易；灵巧

中文词源

facility 设施

来自facile, 简单的。即促进事物简化的设施或工具，后词义通用化。

facility (n.): early 15c., "gentleness, lightness," from Middle French facilité "easiness, ease," from Latin facilitatem (nominative facilitas) "easiness, ease, fluency, willingness," from facilis "easy" (see facile). First in a medical book:
If it be nede forto smyte [the head] wiþ a malle, be it done with esynez or facilite [transl. Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie"]
Its sense in English expanded to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease, quality of being easily done" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something" which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872, via notion of "physical means by which (something) can be easily done."

1. Your camcorder should have these basic features: autofocus, playback facility, zoom lens.: 你的便携式摄像机应该具备以下基本功能：自动聚焦、回放功能、变焦镜头。