核心畫面

One way to picture it: a plain building stacked to the roof with one kind of thing, kept there until somebody needs it. The word is built exactly that way — store plus house — so the image is right on the surface. Modern English rarely uses it for a real building any more; it spends most of its time saying that something holds as much as one of those rooms would.

可以想成一間堆到屋頂的房子,裡面放的都是同一種東西,等著有人需要的時候來拿。這個字就是 store(存放)加 hou更多收起可以想成一間堆到屋頂的房子,裡面放的都是同一種東西,等著有人需要的時候來拿。這個字就是 store(存放)加 house(房子)拼出來的,畫面直接寫在字面上。今天的英文比較少拿它指真正的倉庫。它大部分時間在做另一件事:說某個地方、某本書或某個人,裝的東西多到像那樣一間倉庫。

From the word’s history

The packet gives the compound plainly: storehouse is store plus house, with store coming into Middle English through Anglo-Norman from Latin instaurare. Nothing here needs interpreting; the parts still say what the word means.

資料把這個複合字拆得很清楚:storehouse 就是 store 加 house。store 經由盎格魯諾曼語進入中古英文,源頭是拉丁文 īnstaurāre。這個字不需要額外解讀——兩個部分加起來,就是它今天的意思。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:972974175): 'From store + house', with store traced through Anglo-Norman from Latin instaurare.

Two branches

真正的倉庫

畫面本身:一棟裝滿補給的房子。

noun · C1

A building used for keeping goods, food, or supplies until they are needed.

倉庫;儲藏用的房子

某樣東西的寶庫

把倉庫裡的貨換成資訊、回憶或知識,畫面照舊:堆得滿滿的,而且是拿來用的。

noun · C1

Used in a storehouse of information, memories, ideas, etc. to say that one place, book, collection, or person holds a very large amount of something that you can go and draw on.

寶庫;蘊藏豐富之處