单词 | archive |
释义 | archive (once / 498 pages) nv An archive is a collection of older things — documents, books, movies, or something else — that's meant to preserve them. Archives tell us about history. An archive involves old stuff — specifically, a collection of old stuff, often put together by a librarian. Newspaper archives collect old newspapers, usually all copies of a paper from a certain date onward. There are movie and music archives. Most museums have many types of archives within them. And it's always a good idea to keep an archive of important files on your computer. When you put something in an archive, you're archiving it. WORD FAMILYarchive: archival, archived, archives, archiving, archivist+/archivist: archivists USAGE EXAMPLESOne of them, a historian on the archives staff who was writing a book on the de Carvajal family, accused a rival of the theft. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Jonathan Lethem, 52, recently became the latest author to sell his personal paper trail to a major archive. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Some appear to be in good condition but were conserved using a 1940s process that is slowly degrading the documents housed in the temperature-controlled archives. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a depository containing historical records and documents Hypo|Hyper chancery an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records deposit, depositary, depository, repository a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping 2v put into an archive Syn|Hyper file away collect, pull in get or bring together |
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