喜樂美語
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    nB1

    /ˈwerhaʊs/ · /ˈweəhaʊs/

    a large building used for keeping large amounts of goods until they are needed or sent out.

    倉庫

    複數 warehouses

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

A big plain building with high ceilings and rows of boxes on shelves — nothing is made here and nothing is sold here. Goods just wait: they came in from somewhere, and they will go out to somewhere. It is the parking place in the middle of a journey.

可以想成：一棟高高大大、沒什麼裝潢的建築，裡面一排排架子堆滿箱子。這裡不生產也不賣東西，貨只是在等——從別的地方送進…更多收起可以想成：一棟高高大大、沒什麼裝潢的建築，裡面一排排架子堆滿箱子。這裡不生產也不賣東西，貨只是在等——從別的地方送進來，之後再送出去。它是一趟旅程中間的停車場。這個畫面解釋了為什麼 warehouse 幾乎都跟「量大」「暫放」「等著出貨」連在一起。

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。

warehousenoun/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/

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    A facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products.

    • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
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    An intermediate facility where goods are transported from the manufacturer prior to their distribution to retailers.

warehouseverb/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/

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    To store in a warehouse or similar.

    • Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
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    To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.

    • When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning, but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.
    • We nevertheless pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to process many of these children through the criminal justice system, and to warehouse them for years – and even more if they end up graduating to adult prisons, as most of them do.
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    businessTo acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

    • the warehousing of syndicated TV shows

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。