| 词组 | depositary, depository |
| 释义 | depositary, depository The idea that a depositary is a person or an institution, while a depository is a place, was expressed most often in the early part of this century, though it may occasionally be found today. It is often tempered by a comment to the effect that such a distinction would be nice to make but isn't always made. The last observation is correct: in actual usage, depositary usually refers to a person or institution and depository, a much commoner word, often refers to a place, but the distinction is by no means strictly followed. Historically, both words have referred to persons and institutions since the 17th century and to places since the 18th century. And in many contexts either interpretation is possible. A bank, for example, is both an institution and a place. Here is a sampling of citations: • ... in exercising his functions as a depositary —William W. Bishop, Jr., American Jour, of International Law, July 1951 • ... the immense experience of which we are the depositaries and the inheritors —Max Ascoli, The Reporter, 1 Dec. 1955 • ... the stock had to be at Fluor's depositary that same day —Richard L. Hudson, Wall Street Jour, 26 Nov. 1982 • ... family confidences; of which he is known to be the silent depository —Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853 • ... to cope with any large-scale attack on the bullion depository —Alan Hynd, Saturday Evening Post, 29 May 1954 • ... Congress officially became the depository of Burma's gift —Cecil Hobbs in Understanding Other Cultures, ed. William A. Parker, 1954 • ... the ocean deeps ... cannot be considered a safe depository for radioactive wastes —Current Biography, December 1965 |
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