Capacious describes a bag, a pocket, a coat, a room, even a cupboard, that has a lot of space inside. You can put many things in it and it still does not feel full. A capacious handbag can take a bottle of water, a book, and lunch without a fight.

Capacious describescapacious用來形容 a bag, a pocket, a coat, a room, even a cupboard包包、口袋、外套、房間，甚至櫥櫃，that has a lot of space inside裡面空間很大。You can put many things in it你可以放很多東西進去，and it still does not feel full還是不會感覺滿。A capacious handbag一個capacious的手提包 can take a bottle of water, a book, and lunch可以輕輕鬆鬆裝下一瓶水、一本書和午餐，without a fight完全不用硬塞。

In everyday talk people almost never say this word. They say roomy, or big inside, or spacious. You meet capacious in books, in careful writing, and in ads that want to sound a little grand.

In everyday talk在日常口語裡，people almost never say this word大家幾乎不會說這個字。They say他們會說 roomy, or big inside, or spaciousroomy、big inside，或spacious。You meet capacious你會看到capacious in books, in careful writing出現在書裡、講究的文章裡，and in ads that want to sound a little grand還有想要聽起來有點氣派的廣告裡。

Writers also stretch it: a capacious mind or a capacious memory can hold many ideas or many facts. That stretch is still about holding, not about being clever.

Writers also stretch it作家也會把這個字用得更廣：a capacious mind or a capacious memorycapacious mind（腦袋很能裝）或capacious memory（記性很能裝） can hold many ideas or many facts可以裝很多想法或很多事實。That stretch is still about holding這個延伸用法講的還是「能裝」，not about being clever不是「聰明」。

Though actually, the old Latin parent of this word meant both “able to hold a lot” and “able to do something,” and English split those: capacious kept the holding, capable kept the doing.

Though actually不過實際上，the old Latin parent of this word這個字古老的拉丁字根 meant both 'able to hold a lot' and 'able to do something'同時有「能裝很多」和「能做某件事」兩個意思，and English split those後來英文把它們分開：capacious kept the holdingcapacious留下了「能裝」，capable kept the doingcapable留下了「能做」。

So this is not a louder way to say capable, and it is not a fancy twin of big. Big is how it looks from the outside; capacious is how much room there is inside.

So this is not a louder way to say capable所以這不是「講得更誇張版的capable」，and it is not a fancy twin of big也不是big的高級雙胞胎。Big is how it looks from the outsidebig講的是外表看起來怎樣；capacious is how much room there is insidecapacious講的是裡面有多少空間。