repository
/rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1- a place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored仓库, 贮藏室：
a deep repository for nuclear waste.
一个很深的核废料贮藏室。
1.1
- a place in which something, especially a natural resource, has accumulated or where it is found in significant quantities自然资源丰富的地区; 物资丰富地区：
accessible repositories of water.
可用的丰富水资源区。
1.2
- a person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which something abstract is held to exist or be found喻为知识宝库的人（或物）：
his mind was a rich repository of the past.
他的大脑是存有大量历史信息的宝库。
词源
late 15th cent.: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- 'placed back', from the verb reponere （see REPOSE2）.