archives
 檔案,公文,案卷保管處,檔案室


 Ar·chive n.; pl. Archives
 1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
    Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.   --Gov. of Tongue.
 2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
 [Rarely used in sing.]
    Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.   --Lamb.
 Syn: -- Registers; records; chronicles.

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 archives
      n 1: collection of records especially about an institution
      2: a depository containing historical records and documents
         [syn: archive]