jukebox

• n. 自動唱機

來自美國南部黑人俚語juke,混亂的，不整潔的，用來指路邊的小酒館，小酒吧，box,盒子，音樂盒。類似於卡拉OK的簡陋的點唱機，投幣後可以唱歌。

jukebox

jukebox: [20] The jukebox – a coin-operated record-player – got its name from being played in jukes; and a juke (or juke-house, or jukejoint), in US Black English slang of the middle years of the 20th century, was a roadhouse providing food and drink, music for dancing, and usually the services of prostitutes. The word probably came from the adjective juke or joog, which meant ‘wicked’ or ‘disorderly’ in the Gullah language, a creolized English of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida; and that in turn may well have originated in some as yet unidentified West African language.

jukebox (n.)

1937, jook organ, from jook joint "roadhouse" (1935), Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida), probably from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory." Said to have originated in central Florida (see "A Note on Juke," Florida Review, vol. VII, no. 3, spring 1938). The spelling with a -u- might represent a deliberate attempt to put distance between the word and its origins.

For a long time the commercial juke trade resisted the name juke box and even tried to raise a big publicity fund to wage a national campaign against it, but "juke box" turned out to be the biggest advertising term that could ever have been invented for the commercial phonograph and spread to the ends of the world during the war as American soldiers went abroad but remembered the juke boxes back home. ["Billboard," Sept. 15, 1945]

1. I learnt to jive there when they got the jukebox.

他們安了自動點唱機後，我在那兒學會了跳搖擺舞。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The waiters mime to records playing on the jukebox.

侍者們配合自動唱機裏播放的唱片對口型假唱。

來自柯林斯例句

3. My favorite song is on the jukebox.

自動點唱機在放我最喜歡的歌。

來自柯林斯例句

4. A tango was playing on the jukebox.

點唱機播放著一首探戈舞曲。

來自柯林斯例句

5. A hillbilly love song was on the jukebox.

自動唱機正在放一張鄉間情歌唱片.

來自辭典例句