核心畫面

Picture a room where the weapons are kept: rows of them on shelves, each in its place, waiting for the moment someone needs one. Reach in, take what the job needs, put it back. That one room is the whole word. Sometimes the attention is on the room, sometimes on the things inside it, sometimes on the workshop that made them — and sometimes the weapons on the shelf are not weapons at all, but the skills a person can reach for.

可以想成一個房間:武器一排排放在架上,每一件都有自己的位置,等著有人需要的時候取用。伸手拿一件出來,用完再放回去。整更多收起可以想成一個房間:武器一排排放在架上,每一件都有自己的位置,等著有人需要的時候取用。伸手拿一件出來,用完再放回去。整個字就是這一個畫面。有時候鏡頭對著房間,有時候對著裡面的東西,有時候對著把它們做出來的工坊。而有時候架上的那些「武器」根本不是武器,而是一個人隨時拿得出來的本事。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces armoury through Middle English armerie and Anglo-Norman armurrie to armure ('arms, armour') plus the ending -ie, so the word began as 'the whole business of arms' rather than as one room. That breadth is why it still covers the store, the collection and the workshop at once.

資料把 armoury 追到中古英語 armerie,再往前是盎格魯-諾曼語 armurrie,由 armure(武器、盔甲)加字尾 -ie 組成。它一開始指的是「跟武器有關的那一整套事情」,而不是單一個房間。這正好說明它為什麼同時能指庫房、整批裝備,還有製造的工坊。

Wiktionary entry supplied in evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1167959181): "From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure ('arms, armor') + -ie ('-y'). By surface analysis, armour + -y."

Two branches

真的武器:放的地方、整套裝備、做的地方

這一組都還在核心畫面裡,只是鏡頭停在不同的位置:房間本身、架上的東西,或把東西做出來的工坊。

noun · B2

A room or building where weapons and armour are kept, for example in a castle, an army base, or a museum.

軍械庫

比喻:手邊可以拿出來用的本事

同一個房間,架上換成本事、方法和資料。需要哪一樣就伸手拿哪一樣,這是一個教學上的聯想,不是說這個意思比較晚出現。

noun · C1

All the skills, methods, facts or tools that a person or group has ready to use in order to get something done.

可用的本事、手段

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

armourynoun/ˈɑɹməɹi/

  • 1

    A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.

    • Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or defective fastenings.
  • 2

    A collection of weapons and materiel.

  • 3

    A place where arms are made.

  • 4

    The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.

    • (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
    • He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]
  • 5

    Heraldry.

  • 6

    rareA family or group of aardvarks.

    • A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole
    • Jonathan Risbridger, senior zookeeper at Whipsnade Zoo, said: “Nacho and Tafari are a great addition to our family, or armoury, of aardvarks here at Whipsnade Zoo. Nacho is actually returning to Whipsnade, as she was one the first ever aardvarks to live at our zoo”.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。