depot

車庫、車両基地

使っていないバスや電車などを置いておく場所。

やさしい英語で： A place where buses, trains, or other vehicles are kept when they are not being used.

• The bus returned to the depot.
• Mechanics repair the trains at this depot.
• Several depots were needed for the city's new buses.

類義語： garage

よく使う表現： bus depot, railway depot, tram depot

倉庫、貯蔵所

商品や道具などを、必要になるまで保管しておく場所。

やさしい英語で： A place where goods or equipment are kept until they are needed.

• The depot stores spare equipment.
• Trucks collected supplies from the depot.
• They built two fuel depots near the port.

類義語： warehouse, storehouse

よく使う表現： fuel depot, supply depot, storage depot, distribution depot

薬剤デポ、薬剤貯留部

体の一部に蓄えられ、そこからゆっくり体内へ吸収される薬。

やさしい英語で： A supply of medicine placed in one part of the body and slowly taken into the rest.

• The injection forms a depot under the skin.
• Medicine is slowly released from the depot.
• The doctor recommended a depot injection once a month.

よく使う表現： depot injection, drug depot, depot formulation