a level of a building; a floor 楼层 the upper/lower storey of the house 房子的上面／下面一层 a single-storey/two-storey building 单层建筑物；两层楼房
Homophones storey | storystorey story- storey noun
There are splendid views from the tenth storey. 从第十层楼可以看到壮丽的景色。
- story noun
It's not real—it's just a story. 这不是真的——这只是一个故事。
Which Word? storey / floorstorey / floor- You use storey (British English)/story (US English) mainly when you are talking about the number of levels a building has:
storey（英式英语）／story（美式英语）主要用以指建筑物的楼层数目： a five-storey house 一栋五层楼的房屋 The office building is five storeys high. 办公大楼有五层楼高。
- Floor is used mainly to talk about which particular level in the building someone lives on, goes to, etc:
floor 主要指居住或前往等的某楼层： His office is on the fifth floor. 他的办公室在五楼。
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1He jumped out of the second-storey/second-story window. 他从二层的窗户跳了出来。 I live on the top storey. 我住在顶层。 The building is four storeys/stories high. 这座楼有 4 层高。 The house has three storeys. 这所房子有 3 层。 The kitchen occupies the lower storey. 厨房在下面一层。 They plan to add an extra storey. 他们计划增加一层楼。 a five-storey house 一栋五层楼的房屋
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lower
- top
- upper
- …
- have
- occupy
- add
- …
- on a/the storey
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories high
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories tall
- -storeyed(British English)(US English -storied)
(in adjectives 构成形容词 (of a building 楼房 having the number of levels mentioned 有…层的 a four-storeyed building 四层楼房
Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Latin historia ‘history, story’, a special use in Anglo-Latin, perhaps originally denoting a tier of painted windows or sculptures on the front of a building (representing a historical subject).