核心畫面

Picture a locked building with rack after rack of weapons inside — everything a fighting force could reach for, all in one place. From the building the word slides to what is stored in it (a country's whole stock of weapons), and then off the battlefield entirely: any full set of things you can reach for when you need to win.

可以想成:一棟上了鎖的建築,裡面一排一排全是武器——要打仗時能拿的東西,全都收在同一個地方。arsenal 的意思就更多收起可以想成:一棟上了鎖的建築,裡面一排一排全是武器——要打仗時能拿的東西,全都收在同一個地方。arsenal 的意思就從這個畫面往外走:先從「房子」滑到「房子裡的存貨」(一個國家的全部軍備),再整個離開戰場,變成任何一整套隨時可以取用的本事。所以它強調的一直是「齊全、成套、隨手可調度」。

From the picture

整套可用的本事

武器換成技能或方法,但畫面沒變:架上擺著一整排,需要哪一項就抽哪一項出來用。

set of skills or tools · noun · C1

All the skills, tools, or methods that someone can use to help them do something well.

全套本領 / 法寶

Also in this word

weapons building · noun · C1

A building where weapons are made or kept.

軍械庫 / 兵工廠

weapons collection · noun · C1

A large collection of weapons kept by a country, group, or person.

軍火庫 / 武器庫

原始詞典資料5 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。

Arsenalname

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe Arsenal Football Club.

arsenalnoun/ˈɑːsənəl/

  • 1

    A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.

  • 2

    A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.

  • 3

    A store or supply of anything.

    • Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
  • 4

    Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship.

    • He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.
    • Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

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