album
英 ['ælbəm]
美 ['ælbəm]
助記提示
1. alb- + -um (拉丁語後綴).
2. 該詞本意為：白色，潔白(white color, whiteness)。
3. 在古代，使用這個詞表示羅馬教皇在空白的牌匾上記錄一年中重大的事情，後來由此被德國學者借用過去表示由同事、同僚在空白冊子上簽了名的簽名冊，後來含義由此泛化為表示記錄下來、收集起來供收藏、紀念的各種冊、集、簿等。
中文詞源
album 相冊來自詞根alb, 白色。原指古時候用來登記姓名，記錄重大事件的白板。
英文詞源
- album
- album: [17] Latin albus ‘white’ has been the source of a variety of English words: alb ‘ecclesiastical tunic’ [OE], albedo ‘reflective power’ [19], Albion [13], an old word for Britain, probably with reference to its white cliffs, albumen ‘white of egg’ [16], and auburn, as well as albino. Album is a nominalization of the neuter form of the adjective, which was used in classical times for a blank, or white, tablet on which public notices were inscribed.
Its original adoption in the modern era seems to have been in Germany, where scholars kept an album amicorum ‘album of friends’ in which to collect colleagues’ signatures. This notion of an autograph book continues in Dr Johnson’s definition of album in his Dictionary 1755: ‘a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert the autographs of celebrated people’, but gradually it became a repository for all sorts of souvenirs, including in due course photographs.
=> alb, albedo, albino, albumen, auburn, daub - album (n.)
- 1650s, from Latin album "white color, whiteness," neuter of albus "white" (see alb). In classical times "a blank tablet on which the Pontifex Maximus registered the principal events of the year; a list of names." Revived 16c. by German scholars whose custom was to keep an album amicorum of colleagues' signatures; meaning then expanded into "book to collect souvenirs." According to Johnson, "a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert autographs of celebrated people." Photographic albums first recorded 1859. Meaning "long-playing gramophone record" is by 1951, because the sleeves they came in resembled large albums.
雙語例句
- 1. The group's debut album was immediately acclaimed a hip hop classic.
- 這個組合的首張專輯一經推出便被盛讚為嘻哈樂的經典之作。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They are recording a follow-up to their successful 1989 album.
- 他們正在灌錄他們1989年暢銷專輯的續篇。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional.
- 他們的第一張專輯是那麽的坦率，近乎自白。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. "Daring Adventures" from '86 is a far more cohesive and successful album.
- 1986年發行的《勇於冒險》是一張風格更為統一也更為成功的專輯。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Janet Jackson's new album has been heralded by a massive media campaign.
- 珍妮·傑克遜的新專輯已經在媒體上進行了大規模宣傳。
來自柯林斯例句