video

英 ['v?d???] 美['v?d?o]

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復(fù)數(shù):?videos;第三人稱單數(shù):?videos;過(guò)去式:?videoed;過(guò)去分詞:?videoed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?videoing;

video 錄像帶

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)videre,看，詞源同visit,evident。

video: video: see visit
video (adj.): 1935, as visual equivalent of audio, from Latin video "I see," first person singular present indicative of videre "to see" (see vision). As a noun, "that which is displayed on a (television) screen," 1937.
Engineers, however, remember the sad fate of television's first debut and are not willing to allow "video transmission" (as television is now called by moderns) to leave the laboratory until they are sure it will be accepted. ["The Michigan Technic," November 1937]
video game is from 1973.

1. I went through about four years of being addicted to video games.: 我大約有4年時(shí)間沉迷在電子游戲中。

2. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework.: 湯姆承認(rèn)玩電子游戲有時(shí)會(huì)使他無(wú)心做作業(yè)。

3. Two out of every three Britons already own a video recorder.: 每3個(gè)英國(guó)人中就有兩個(gè)已經(jīng)有了錄像機(jī)。

4. A technician loads a video tape into one of the machines.: 一名技師把一盒錄影帶裝進(jìn)其中一臺(tái)機(jī)器。

5. Stricter controls were placed on the content of video films.: 對(duì)錄像片內(nèi)容實(shí)行了更為嚴(yán)格的監(jiān)管。