an appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers (尤指情人之间)约会,幽会,私会 his assignation with an older woman. 他与一位老妇人的约会。
[mass noun]the allocation or attribution of someone or something as belonging to something 归属,归因
语源
late Middle English (in the senses 'command, appointment to office, or allotment of revenue'): via Old French from Latin assignatio(n-), from the verb assignare (see assign)