喜樂美語

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'

同家族的字

複數 treasuries

意思相近

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原始詞典資料9 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。

Treasuryname

  • 1

    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：

  • treasury department
  • treasury bond
  • digital-asset treasury company

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。