receptacle
n. [植] 花托;容器;插座
复数 receptacles
例句
The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins.
海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
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But the wine bottle was a safe receptacle for my message.
但这个葡萄酒瓶是我那封信的安全容器。
PCs became a receptacle for huge amounts of “unstructured information”, such as text files and presentations.
个人电脑为总量庞大的诸如卷宗和报告的“非系统化信息”提供存储空间。