| 单词 | repository |
| 释义 | repository (once / 3583 pages) 1n 2n Think of a repository as a storehouse, a place where things are kept until needed. A silo is a repository for animal feed, and a trivia buff's mind is a repository for useless information. The noun repository has a somewhat formal ring to it — why not just call a storehouse a storehouse, right? Think of a repository as somewhat more important and imposing than just a place to dump stuff. It has more of an air of authority, like the things stored there could change the world. Consider nuclear waste — would you rather store it in a dump or a repository? I don’t know about you, but I'd prefer the latter—sounds safer. WORD FAMILYrepository: repositories USAGE EXAMPLESThe museum will not, as many assume, be a repository for “Star Wars” memorabilia. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “A right-wing demagogue in charge of the world’s most influential repository of democratic values,” wrote Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf, “is a devastating fact.” Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) It is the awareness that their bodies are repositories for other people’s narratives and stereotypes that burdens all the women I spoke to. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper deposit, depositary, depository Hagia Sophia a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century Louvre Museuman art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris archive a depository containing historical records and documents bank, bank buildinga building in which the business of banking transacted dropa central depository where things can be left or picked up depository library, librarya depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study lost-and-foundrepository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them museuma depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value repertorya storehouse where a stock of things is kept sperm banka depository for storing sperm depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehousea depository for goods treasurya depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely athenaeum, atheneuma place where reading materials are available chanceryan office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records dumpa place where supplies can be stored garner, granarya storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed circulating library, lending librarylibrary that provides books for use outside the building magazine, powder magazine, powder storea storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored maildropa drop where mail can be deposited railheada railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution science museuma museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interest treasure housea storehouse for treasures storage warehouse, warehousea storehouse for goods and merchandise facility, installation a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry 2n a burial vault (usually for some famous person) 2Syn|Hyper monument burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture a chamber that is used as a grave n a person to whom a secret is entrusted Syn|Hyper secretary confidant, intimate someone to whom private matters are confided |
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