store

Compared meaning: a place that sells goods (noun).

比较义项：商店（名词）。

• store 本词

  More common in American English; usually refers to a larger retail business (grocery store, department store) and is used more broadly for any place selling goods.

  在美式英语中更常用；通常指规模较大的零售场所（食品店、百货商店），也更广泛地用于任何售卖商品的场所。

  We need to buy milk from the store.

  我们需要去商店买牛奶。

• shop

  More common in British English; usually suggests a small, specialized store, and can also mean a workshop where things are made (a different sense not compared here).

  在英式英语中更常用；通常指小型、专业化的店铺，也可以指制造物品的工场（此处不比较该义项）。

  He walked into the shop to buy some fresh vegetables.

  他走进商店买了一些新鲜蔬菜。

Store and shop both mean a place that sells goods, but usage differs by region. Store is more common in American English, for larger businesses. Shop is more common in British English, for small, specialized stores. This does not compare shop meaning 'a workshop'.

store 和 shop 在“商店”这一意义上很接近，但 store 更常用于美式英语，通常指规模较大的零售场所；shop 更常用于英式英语，通常指规模较小、较专业化的店铺。这里不比较 shop 的“工厂”义项。

Compared meaning: a place for storing things, a warehouse (noun).

比较义项：仓库、储藏处（存放物品的场所）（名词）。

• store 本词

  Mainly British, and normally appears only in fixed compounds like 'cold store' or 'grain store'; alone, 'store' usually means a shop, so this warehouse sense rarely stands on its own.

  主要为英式用法，通常只出现在「cold store」（冷藏库）、「grain store」（粮仓）这类固定搭配中；单独使用「store」时更常表示「商店」，因此这个表示仓库的意思很少单独使用。

  The old dairy still uses a cold store to age its cheese for months.

  这家老乳品厂至今仍使用冷藏库给奶酪陈放数月。

• storage

  Usually an uncountable noun for the space or service of keeping things, as in 'in storage' or 'storage space'; it rarely names one particular building the way the other words do.

  通常是不可数名词，指存放物品的空间或行为，如「in storage」（存放中）、「storage space」（储物空间）；它很少像其他几个词那样，指某一栋具体的建筑。

  We put most of our furniture into storage while the house was being renovated.

  房子装修期间，我们把大部分家具存放了起来。

• depot

  Suggests a place where goods, supplies or vehicles are kept before being sent on, often with a military, industrial or transport flavor; depot can also mean a bus or train station.

  指存放货物、物资或车辆、以便日后运出的场所，常带有军事、工业或交通运输的色彩；depot 也可以指公共汽车站或火车站。

  Delivery trucks collect fresh produce from the depot before dawn every single day.

  送货卡车每天黎明前都要去仓库取新鲜农产品。

• storehouse

  A formal, somewhat literary word for a building that holds goods, often food or supplies; it also extends figuratively, as in 'a storehouse of knowledge'.

  是一个较正式、带文学色彩的词，指用来存放物品（常是食物或物资）的建筑；也可比喻使用，如「a storehouse of knowledge」（知识的宝库）。

  The temple's storehouse once held enough rice to feed the whole village.

  这座寺庙的仓库曾经存放着足够全村人吃的大米。

All four can mean warehouse, but usage differs. Store is mainly British ('cold store'); alone it means shop. Depot also means bus or train station. Storehouse is formal; also means 'storehouse of knowledge'. Storage is uncountable; also means computer storage.

这四个词都表示「仓库、储藏处」，但语域和搭配不同：store 多用于英式固定搭配，单独使用时最常见的意思是「商店」，这里不比较该义项；depot 除仓库义外，也常指公共汽车站或火车站，这里不涉及该义项；storehouse 语气较正式、文学化，也可比喻指「知识的宝库」，这里只比较其字面意思；storage 通常是不可数名词，也可指电脑的「存储」，这里只比较其表示储藏场所或空间的意思。