arsenal
/ˈɑːsənəl/noun
1- a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group(国家、个人或群体的)武器和军用储备:
Britain's nuclear arsenal.
英国的核储备。
1.1
- a place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made军火库; 兵工厂。
1.2
- in sing. figurative an array of resources available for a certain purpose〈喻〉可用于某一目的的大量资源:
we have an arsenal of computers at our disposal.
我们有许多电脑可供支配。
词源
early 16th cent. (denoting a dock for the construction and repair of ships): from French, or from obsolete Italian arzanale, based on Arabic dār-as-sinā'a, from dār 'house' + al- '(of) the' + sinā'a 'art, industry'.