sto·rey
noun/ˈstɔːri/
/ˈstɔːri/
(US English story)
(plural storeys, US English stories)
- a level of a building; a floor
楼层 - the upper/lower storey of the house
房子的上面／下面一层 - a single-storey/two-storey building
单层建筑物；两层楼房
Homophones storey | storystorey story/ˈstɔːri//ˈstɔːri/- storey noun
- There are splendid views from the tenth storey.
从十楼可以看到壮丽的景色。
- There are splendid views from the tenth storey.
- story noun
- It's not real—it's just a story.
这不是真实的——这只是一个故事。
- It's not real—it's just a story.
Which Word? storey / floorstorey / floor- You use storey (British English)/story (US English) mainly when you are talking about the number of levels a building has:
- a five-storey house
一栋五层楼的房屋 - The office building is five storeys high.
办公大楼有五层楼高。
- a five-storey house
- Floor is used mainly to talk about which particular level in the building someone lives on, goes to, etc:
- His office is on the fifth floor.
他的办公室在五楼。
- His office is on the fifth floor.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1- He jumped out of the second-storey/second-story window.
他从二层的窗户跳了出来。 - I live on the top storey.
我住在顶层。 - The building is four storeys/stories high.
这座楼有 4 层高。 - The house has three storeys.
这所房子有 3 层。 - The kitchen occupies the lower storey.
厨房在下面一层。 - They plan to add an extra storey.
他们计划增加一层楼。 - a five-storey house
一栋五层楼的房屋
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lower
- top
- upper
- …
- have
- occupy
- add
- …
- on a/the storey
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories high
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories tall
- the upper/lower storey of the house
- -storeyed(British English)(US English -storied)(in adjectives) (of a building) having the number of levels mentioned
有…层的 - a four-storeyed building
四层楼房
- a four-storeyed building
Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Latin historia ‘history, story’, a special use in Anglo-Latin, perhaps originally denoting a tier of painted windows or sculptures on the front of a building (representing a historical subject).