Word · Frequency #406

banks

/bæŋk/

noun

银行；金融机构

banks is the plural of bank.

A financial institution, or a branch of such an institution, where people can save, borrow, or manage money.

1.
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
银行,金融机构。
2.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
河岸、湖岸或其他水道的边缘。
3.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
存储或分组在一起的一排或一组物品
4.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
长凳,如帆桨船上的桨手座；也指一层桨
5.
sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
斜坡(尤指水体旁的斜坡)
6.
A branch office of such an institution.
银行的分行。
7.
An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
海底高地；由沙、砾石、泥等构成的浅滩。
8.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
音乐键盘上的一排琴键或打字机键盘上对应的一排键
9.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
法庭上法官坐的长凳或席位
10.
a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
银行(接受存款并将资金用于贷款活动的金融机构)
11.
An underwriter or controller of a card game.
纸牌游戏中的庄家或控局者。
12.
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
土、沙等的斜坡；堤岸。
13.
A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
固定硬件相关大小的连续内存块,通常大于页面,并将内存分区,使两个不同的存储体不重叠
14.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
法庭的常规开庭期,或全体法官出庭审理法律问题的合议庭,区别于审理陪审团案件的初审法庭。参见 banc
15.
a long ridge or pile
长条状隆起或堆
16.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
由存款或出资组成的基金,用于业务交易；合资或资本。
17.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
飞机倾斜,尤指转弯时
18.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
一组相邻的放置目标
19.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
键盘的一排键,如在风琴上
20.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
庄家或银行家持有的资金总额,用于下注和赔付。
21.
An incline, a hill.
斜坡,山丘
22.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
在某些游戏(如多米诺骨牌)中,供玩家抽取的牌堆。
23.
A mass of clouds.
云团
24.
A device used to store coins or currency.
存钱罐,储币装置。
25.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
矿工正在开采的煤壁
26.
A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
数字合成器中的一组乐器数据。
27.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
水位以上通过挖掘开采的矿藏或煤层
28.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
矿井井口的地面

河岸；堤岸；坡岸；排；组；列；沙洲；浅滩；长凳；法官席；桨手座；庄家

In use

We sat on the river bank and watched the boats go by.

我们坐在河岸上，看着船只经过。

She went to the bank to deposit her paycheck.

她去银行存工资支票。

A bank of clouds gathered on the horizon before the storm.

暴风雨来临前，地平线上聚集起一片云层。

they pulled the canoe up on the bank

他们把独木舟拖上了河岸。

he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents

他坐在河岸上观看水流。

he cashed a check at the bank

他在银行兑现了一张支票。

that bank holds the mortgage on my home

那家银行对我的房子拥有抵押权。

a huge bank of earth

一个巨大的土坡

Connections

Collocations

river bank: 河岸; The children played on the river bank.孩子们在河岸上玩耍。
snow bank: 雪堆; The car got stuck in a snow bank.汽车陷在了雪堆里。
cloud bank: 云层; A cloud bank appeared on the horizon.地平线上出现了一片云层。
blood bank: 血库; The hospital needs more donations for the blood bank.医院需要更多献血来补充血库。
data bank: 数据库; The company maintains a data bank of customer information.公司维护着一个客户信息数据库。

Idioms & figurative uses

Learner notes

Memory Tip

想象河岸(bank)上有一家银行(bank)，存钱就像河水存到岸上，同一个词两种意思。

Context & Register

通常用于地理或自然环境，描述河流两侧的斜坡或堤岸，属于中性语境。

Grammar Note

作银行讲时常用at或in；作河岸讲时常用on或along。

Pronunciation & Spelling

All listed words rhyme with 'bank', sharing the ending /æŋk/.

High-value vocabulary

该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。

Usage priority

Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。

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