英汉词典

camera 基本解释

• n. 照相机；摄影机
• n. (Camera)人名；(英、意、西)卡梅拉

camera 词态变化

camera 中文词源

来自拉丁短语camera obscura，字面意思即obscure chamber, 暗室，早期照相机的重要结构。

camera 英文词源

camera

camera: [18] Latin camera originally meant ‘vaulted room’ (a sense preserved in the Radcliffe Camera, an 18th-century building housing part of Oxford University library, which has a vaulted roof). It came from Greek kamárā ‘vault, arch’, which is ultimately related to English chimney. In due course the meaning ‘vaulted room’ became weakened to simply ‘room’, which reached English, via Old French chambre, as chamber, and is preserved in the legal Latin phrase in camera ‘privately, in judge’s chambers’.

In the 17th century, an optical instrument was invented consisting of a small closed box with a lens fixed in one side which produced an image of external objects on the inside of the box. The same effect could be got in a small darkened room, and so the device was called a camera obscura ‘dark chamber’. When the new science of photography developed in the 19th century, using the basic principle of the camera obscura, camera was applied to the picture-forming box.
=> chamber, chimney

camera (n.)

1708, "vaulted building," from Latin camera "vaulted room" (source of Italian camera, Spanish camara, French chambre), from Greek kamara "vaulted chamber."

The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Modern Latin camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), contrasted with camera lucida (Latin for "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce on paper beneath the instrument an image, which can be traced. It became the word for "picture-taking device" when modern photography began, c. 1840 (extended to television filming devices 1928). Camera-shy is attested from 1890. Old Church Slavonic komora, Lithuanian kamara, Old Irish camra all are borrowings from Latin.

camera 词组搭配

camera 英文释义

1. equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

2. television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

camera 双语例句

1. Sylvia, camera in hand, asked, "Where do we go first?"

西尔维娅手里拿着相机问道：“我们先去哪里？”

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2. The camera combines rugged reliability with unequalled optical performance and speed.

这款相机既坚固耐用，又有超凡的光学性能和快门速度。

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3. He pounced on the photographer, beat him up and smashed his camera.

他突然扑向摄影师，痛打了他一顿，还摔碎了他的照相机。

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4. There was a Leica camera for sale in the window.

橱窗里有架莱卡相机待售。

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5. With trembling fingers, he removed the camera from his pocket.

他手指哆嗦着从口袋里取出相机.

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camera 实用场景例句

Just point the camera and press the button.

只要把照相机对准，然后按动快门就可以了。

牛津词典

Cameras started clicking as soon as she stepped out of the car.

她一跨出汽车，照相机就开始咔嚓咔嚓地响成一片。

牛津词典

a TV/video camera

电视摄像机；摄像机

牛津词典

a camera crew

摄制组

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The trial was held in camera.

审判秘密进行。

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Are you prepared to tell your story on camera?

你愿意在电视上讲述你的经历吗？

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...a video camera...

摄影机

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fay was so impressive on camera that a special part was written in for her...

费伊很上镜,所以特地为她编写了一个角色。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.

几乎什么事情都可能发生,我们要赶去那里进行现场抓拍。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They were anything but friendly off-camera, refusing even to take the same lift.

在银幕外,他们彼此一点也不友好,甚至不愿同乘一部电梯。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...off-camera interviews.

未进行录像的采访

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This morning's appeal was held in camera...

今天上午的上诉不公开审理。

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They were sentenced by a military tribunal sitting in camera.

对他们的判决是由一个军事法庭秘密作出的。

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Her gran lent her a camera for a school trip to Venice and Egypt.

她奶奶借给她一架相机,让她带上参加学校组织的威尼斯和埃及之旅。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Mrs. Ford accepted an invitation to a luncheon, but a headache made her beg off.

福德夫人接受了参加午宴的邀请, 但头痛使她又请求告退.

辞典例句

The camera is guaranteed for twelve months.

这架相机保用一年.

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The camera has two focuses.

这部相机有两个焦距.

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He petitioned for a retrial in camera.

他请求不公开重新审理此案.

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The body of the camera makes it highly resilient to outdoor use.

这部照相机的机身很适合户外使用.

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The lens of a camera forms images.

照相机的镜头使图像形成.

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Can you show me how I can handle this camera?

你能教我如何使用这个照相机 吗 ?

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This camera loads easily.

这架照相机装胶卷很容易.

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If the camera is not brought into focus, the photo will be blurred.

如果照相机焦点不对准, 照片就会模糊.

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This camera is too dear.

这架照相机太贵了.

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a diddy little camera

袖珍照相机

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It is a fallacy to say that the camera never lies.

说照相机绝不骗人，这是谬见。

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I cradled my video camera nervously on my lap, but its cold contours did nothing to comfort me.

我紧张地把摄影机架在大腿上，但是它冰冷的外形并没能给我任何安慰。

柯林斯例句

He pounced on the photographer, beat him up and smashed his camera.

他突然扑向摄影师，痛打了他一顿，还摔碎了他的照相机。

柯林斯例句

Setting up the camera can be tricky.

调试相机可能会很费事。

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With trembling fingers, he removed the camera from his pocket.

他手指哆嗦着从口袋里取出相机.

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