photo
英 ['fəʊtəʊ]
美 ['foto]
中文詞源
英文詞源
- photo
- photo: [19] Greek phōs meant ‘light’ (it was related to Sanskrit bhā- ‘shine’). Its stem form phōto- was used by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1839 to coin the term photograph, based on the Greek element -graphos ‘writing’, and perhaps inspired by a parallel German formation photographie which had appeared a little earlier the same year. The word’s living connection with the concept ‘light’ has now been virtually severed, but it still flourishes in, for example, photoelectric [19], photometer [18], photon [20], and photosynthesis [19].
=> phosphorus, photon - photo (n.)
- 1860, shortening of photograph. The verb is first recorded 1865, from the noun. Photo finish is attested from 1936. Photo opportunity first recorded 1974.
雙語例句
- 1. The popular papers all have photo features on their inside pages.
- 通俗報紙的內頁都有照片專欄.
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They said, after digging around, the photo was a fake.
- 在搜集了有關情況後,他們說照片是偽造的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I've got a photo of him on the wall.
- 我在牆上掛了一張他的照片。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. On a shelf beneath he spotted a photo album.
- 他在下麵的架子上瞅見了一本相冊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The gift shop's biggest seller is a photo of Nixon meeting Presley.
- 這家禮品店最暢銷的商品是尼克鬆會見貓王普雷斯利的照片。
來自柯林斯例句