英汉词典

television 基本解释

• n. 电视，电视机；电视业

television 词态变化

television 中文词源

tele-,远的，vision,看，视野。

television 英文词源

television

television: [20] Television means etymologically ‘far vision’. Its first element, tele-, comes from Greek téle ‘far off’, a descendant of the same base as télos ‘end’ (source of English talisman and teleology). Other English compounds formed from it include telegraph [18], telegram [19], telepathy [19] (etymologically ‘far feeling’, coined by the psychologist Frederic Myers in 1882), telephone [19], telescope [17] (a word of Italian origin), and telex [20] (a blend of teleprinter and exchange). Television itself was coined in French, and was borrowed into English in 1907.

Of its abbreviations, telly dates from about 1940, TV from 1948.
=> talisman, teleology

television (n.)

1907, as a theoretical system to transmit moving images over telegraph or telephone wires; formed in English or borrowed from French télévision, from tele- + vision.

Television is not impossible in theory. In practice it would be very costly without being capable of serious application. But we do not want that. On that day when it will be possible to accelerate our methods of telephotography by at least ten times, which does not appear to be impossible in the future, we shall arrive at television with a hundred telegraph wires. Then the problem of sight at a distance will without doubt cease to be a chimera. ["Telegraphing Pictures" in "Windsor Magazine," 1907]

Other proposals for the name of a then-hypothetical technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote (1880) and televista (1904). The technology was developed in the 1920s and '30s. Nativized in German as Fernsehen. Shortened form TV is from 1948. Meaning "a television set" is from 1941. Meaning "television as a medium" is from 1927.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. [Clive Barnes, "New York Times," Dec. 30, 1969]

television 词组搭配

television 英文释义

1. broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects;

"she is a star of screen and video"

"Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs

2. a receiver that displays television images;

"the British call a tv set a telly"

3. a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points

television 双语例句

1. The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.

英语 television 是个语源混杂的词,因为 tele 来自希腊文,vision来自拉丁文.

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2. He was carrying on about some stupid television series.

他喋喋不休地说着某个无聊的电视连续剧。

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3. The minute that the war started, everybody was glued to the television.

战事一起，所有人都盯紧了电视报道。

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4. There were television crews and pressmen from all around the world.

来自世界各地的电视工作者和新闻记者齐聚一堂。

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5. He is lined up for no less than four US television interviews.

多达4家美国电视媒体排期邀请他上节目接受采访。

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television 实用场景例句

a colour television

彩色电视机

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a widescreen television

宽屏幕电视机

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a plasma screen television

等离子电视机

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to turn the television on/off

打开 / 关闭电视机

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We don't do much in the evenings except watch television .

我们在晚上除了看电视不怎么干别的事。

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satellite/terrestrial/cable/digital television

卫星 / 地面 / 有线 / 数字电视系统

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the television news

电视新闻

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a television documentary

电视纪录片

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a television company/presenter

电视广播公司 / 节目主持人

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I'd like to work in television (= for a television company) .

我希望从事电视广播事业。

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What's on television tonight?

今晚有什么电视节目？

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Is there anything good on the telly tonight?

今晚电视有好节目吗？

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It was on TV yesterday.

昨天电视上播放了它。

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I recognize you. Aren't you on television?

我认出你来了。你不是常上电视吗？

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She turned the television on and flicked around between news programmes.

她打开电视，来回换台看不同的新闻节目。

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Toy manufacturers began promoting some of their products on television...

玩具制造商开始在电视上推销他们的一些产品。

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Television is increasingly being transmitted by satellites.

越来越多的电视节目通过卫星进行转播。

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I don't have much time to watch very much television.

我没有太多时间可泡在电视上。

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British commercial television has been steadily losing its lead as the most advanced sector of the industry in Europe.

英国商业电视在逐步失去其作为欧洲电视广播业最先进部分的领先地位。

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Television allows viewers to experience an event without any loss of immediacy.

电视让观众可以即时经历某一事件.

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The company are promoting their new products on television.

这家公司在电视上宣传他们的新产品.

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The actor's wedding got a mention on television.

电视上报道了这位男演员的婚礼.

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I don't much care about television.

我并不太爱看电视.

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That filthy movie should never be shown on television.

那种淫秽的电影决不能在电视上播放.

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A thief planted the television set he had stolen on this innocent old woman.

一个贼把偷来的电视机栽赃给这位无辜的老太太.

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