Repository
[rɪ'pɒzɪt(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'pɑzə'tɔri]
解释:
(noun.) a burial vault (usually for some famous person).
(noun.) a person to whom a secret is entrusted.
整理:梅纳德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
校对:诺琳
同义词及近义词:
n. Depository, repertory, depot, magazine, conservatory, store-house, museum, treasury, THESAURUS.
校对:索尼亚
例句:
- I went; sought the repository he had mentioned, found the articles named, and returned with them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I found a tremendous blank, in the place of that smiling repository of my confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- That repository can certainly have no greater treasure of its kind. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Fanny opening her reticule, as they surveyed these things, produced from that repository a shilling and handed it to Uncle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Emanuel's feet, or confidingly put it into his hands, that he spurned the trust or repulsed the repository. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In the lock hang the keys of all her repositories, of her very jewel-casket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
手打:奥拉夫