1. 1武器(總稱)、軍備、兵器裝備

    Weaponry means weapons taken together, as a class of equipment — the guns, missiles, bombs, tanks and so on that an army, a country or a group has. It is uncountable: you say 'modern weaponry', 'advanced weaponry', 'the weaponry of the Roman army', never 'a weaponry' or 'three weaponries'. The word belongs to serious writing — news reports, history books, military and political discussion — and it feels heavier and more technical than the plain plural 'weapons'. The difference is small but real: 'they had weapons' points at the objects; 'their weaponry was outdated' points at the whole set as a kind of equipment, and invites you to judge its quality or level. That is why it sits so naturally after like sophisticated, heavy, nuclear, conventional, primitive. People also use it outside war — a chef's weaponry of knives, a comedian's weaponry of jokes — but that is a stretch for effect, and the reader should feel the joke.

From the word’s history

From weapon + -ry.

由 weapon「武器」加 -ry 組成。

Wiktionary

組成weapon + -ry, an ending that gathers things into a collective whole. Compare machinery, jewellery, pottery, scenery — one word for the whole set of the thing.

同家族的字

  • weaponthe root; weaponry is all the weapons together
  • machinerysame -ry ending: machines as a whole
  • jewellerysame -ry ending: jewels as a whole
  • weaponizesame 'weapon' root + -ize, to turn something into a weapon

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

weaponrynoun/ˈwɛp.ən.ɹi/

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    Weapons collectively

    • The army has a wide array of weaponry.
    • The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

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