storage
storage — 名詞
1. the activity of keeping items such as food, clothes, or furniture in a suitable
存放；儲藏
將物品妥善保存以備日後使用
the activity of keeping items such as food, clothes, or furniture in a suitable room or container so that they stay in good condition and can be used later, or the area designed for this purpose
The basement provides extra storage for all our winter clothes and camping equipment.
地下室提供了額外的存放空間，可以擺放我們所有的冬季衣物和露營裝備。
collocation: provide / extra storage
Rafael built wooden shelves in the garage to increase his storage space.
Rafael 在車庫裡釘了木頭架子，增加了他的儲藏空間。
collocation: storage space
After the harvest, Liang stored the vegetables in a cool, dark storage room.
收成之後，Liang 把蔬菜放進陰涼黑暗的儲藏室裡存放。
Old photographs need careful storage in acid-free boxes to prevent fading.
老照片需要用無酸紙盒仔細存放，才能避免褪色。
- storing
the verb form referring to the action rather than the space
- keeping
broader term covering any act of retaining, not necessarily organized
- preservation
focuses on maintaining quality and preventing decay
- disposal
getting rid of things rather than keeping them
2. a paid service offered by a company where people can leave furniture and other p
倉儲；保管
付費將家具等物品存放在倉庫
a paid service offered by a company where people can leave furniture and other personal goods at a secure facility for a period of time, typically when moving home or travelling, or the fee charged for this
While studying abroad for a year, Nadia put all her furniture in storage.
Nadia 出國念書一年，出發前把所有家具都送進了倉儲。
collocation: put [sth] in storage
Imran paid three months of storage fees in advance to reserve a large unit.
Imran 預付了三個月的倉儲費，預訂了一個大儲物櫃。
collocation: storage fees
The storage warehouse has twenty-four-hour security cameras and climate control.
那間倉儲倉庫有二十四小時保全監視器和空調控溫設備。
Before selling their house, the Kwame family moved extra boxes into storage.
Kwame 一家在賣掉房子之前，把多餘的紙箱都送到了保管倉庫。
- warehousing
more formal and usually refers to large commercial quantities, not household items
- custody
implies legal safekeeping, not just temporary storage
用法筆記
Commonly used in the phrase 'in storage' to describe items kept at a commercial facility. The verb 'put' is the most frequent collocate: 'put something in storage'.
常見錯誤
3. the recording and keeping of digital information such as documents, photos, or p
儲存
數位資料的電子儲存
the recording and keeping of digital information such as documents, photos, or programmes on a computer, phone, or other electronic device, or the hardware designed to hold this information
This tablet has only 32 gigabytes of storage, which fills up quickly with apps.
這臺平板電腦只有 32 GB 的儲存空間，裝幾個應用程式就快滿了。
measured in gigabytes, terabytes
Iris backs up her design files on an external storage drive every Friday.
Iris 每週五都會把設計檔案備份到外接儲存硬碟。
collocation: storage drive
Cloud storage costs less than buying physical hard drives for your data.
雲端儲存的費用比購買實體硬碟來存放資料還要便宜。
Daichi ran out of storage on his laptop and had to delete old video projects.
Daichi 的筆電儲存空間不夠了，只好刪掉一些舊的影片作品。
- memory
often used interchangeably with storage in everyday speech, but technically refers to temporary working memory (RAM)
- disk space
specific to hard drives and solid-state drives
- capacity
focuses on how much data can be held
用法筆記
Often paired with a unit of capacity (gigabytes, terabytes) or a type (cloud storage, internal storage, external storage). 'Storage' in this sense is uncountable — do not say 'a storage' when referring to capacity.