posting
n
(esp Brit) appointment to a post2(1), esp an official one 任命, 委派(尤指担任官职)
The ambassador expects that his next posting will be (to) Paris. 那位大使预期他下次派驻巴黎.
In the first place, any scientific study requires that there be no preferential weighting of one or another of the items in the series it selects for its consideration.