(一般作 archives)a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people (地域、机构或人的)历史档案 source materials in local archives. 当地档案中的原始资料。 [as modifier]a section of archive film. 档案电影集。 ■the place where historical documents or records are kept 档案室,档案馆 they were allowed to study in the archives. 他们被允许在档案室里查阅。 ■a complete record of the data in part or all of a computer system, stored on an infrequently used medium 归档数据
verb
[with obj.]place or store (something) in such a collection or place 把…存入档案资料(或档案室) ■(Computing)transfer (data) to a less frequently used storage medium such as magnetic tape, typically external to the computer system and having a greater storage capacity (计算机)归档
派生 archival adjective 语源
early 17th cent. (in the sense 'place where records are kept'): from French archives (plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia 'public records', from arkhē 'government'. The verb dates from the late 19th cent