核心畫面
You can picture a treasury as the guarded room where a kingdom's wealth is piled up and kept safe — the strong-room of gold, jewels, and coin. From that concrete store-room the word stretches to the office that guards and manages a whole country's money.
可以把 treasury 想成城堡或宮殿裡那間看守嚴密、堆滿財寶的房間——放金子、珠寶、錢幣的金庫。從這間實實在在的…更多收起
可以把 treasury 想成城堡或宮殿裡那間看守嚴密、堆滿財寶的房間——放金子、珠寶、錢幣的金庫。從這間實實在在的藏寶房，這個字延伸去指「替整個國家看管、調度錢的那個部門」。From the word’s history
Treasury goes back through Old French 'tresor' to Latin 'thesaurus,' from Greek 'thesauros' — a store, a treasure-house. The core sits right in the root: a place where valued things are stored. The -y ending marks the place, so a treasury is literally 'the store-house of treasure.'
treasury 一路經古法語 tresor 回到拉丁文 thesaurus，再上溯希臘文 thēsauros——「儲藏處、藏寶庫」。核心就藏在字根裡：一個存放貴重東西的地方。字尾 -y 標的是「處所」，所以 treasury 字面就是「放財寶的那間庫房」。
etymonline / Wiktionary: treasury < Old French tresor < Latin thesaurus < Greek thesauros 'treasure-house'
原始詞典資料9 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。
Treasuryname
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Any specific instance of a government department responsible for the collection, management, and expenditure of public revenue.
- as reported to the Treasury and to Parliament
- aspects of customs work that were formerly under Treasury and are nowadays under Homeland Security
Treasurynoun
- 1
businessfinanceA bond (security) issued by such a department, in particular the United States Department of the Treasury.
- As the Fed moves to adjust for faster growth, shorter-maturity Treasurys will be more vulnerable to further price declines while the risk of a sudden spike in inflation will diminish.
- “The prospects for long-term Treasuries are looking very good right now,” said Michael Contopoulos, director of fixed-income strategy at Richard Bernstein Advisors.
treasurynoun/ˈtɹɛʒ.ə.ɹi/
- 1
A place where treasure is stored safely.
- 2
A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored.
- 3
A collection of artistic or literary works.
- 4
obsoleteA treasure.
- Now since he hath the grace, thus gracelesse be His neighbors sweare he'le swell with treasurie.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。