tabloid

• n. 小報；藥片；文摘；小型畫報
• adj. 小報式的；縮略的；轟動性的；扼要的

來自 tablet,藥片，-oid,類。比喻用法，即像小藥片一樣包含各種原料的，後用於指通俗小報， 八卦報紙，縮寫於 tabloid journalism.

tabloid

tabloid: [19] Tabloid originated as a trade-name for a brand of tablets of condensed medicine, registered in 1884 by Burroughs, Wellcome and Company. It was an alteration of tablet [14], which came from Old French tablete, a diminutive form of table (source of English table). This originally denoted a ‘slab for writing on or inscribing’. Such slabs would have been flat and often quite small, and in the late 16th century the term came to be applied to a ‘flat compressed piece of something’ – such as soap or medicine.

The notion of ‘compression’ or ‘condensation’ underlies the use of tabloid for newspapers of small page size and ‘condensed’ versions of news stories, which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century (‘He advocated tabloid journalism’, Westminster gazette 1 January 1901).
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tabloid (n.)

1884, Tabloid, "small tablet of medicine," trademark name (by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co.) for compressed or concentrated chemicals and drugs, a hybrid formed from tablet + Greek-derived suffix -oid. By 1898, it was being used figuratively to mean a compressed form or dose of anything, hence tabloid journalism (1901), and newspapers that typified it (1917), so called for having short, condensed news articles and/or for being small in size. Associated originally with Alfred C. Harmsworth, editor and proprietor of the "London Daily Mail."

Mr. Harmsworth entered a printing office twenty years ago as office-boy, and today owns thirty periodicals besides The Mail. Upon a friendly challenge from Mr. Pulitzer of The New York World, the English journalist issued the first number of The World for the new century in the ideal form. The size of the page was reduced to four columns and the general make-up was similar in appearance to that of one of the weekly magazines. Current news was presented in condensed and tabulated form, of which the editor says: "The world enters today upon the twentieth or time-saving century. I claim that by my system of condensed or tabloid journalism hundreds of working hours can be saved each year." ["The Twentieth Century Newspaper," in "The Social Gospel," February 1901]

1. I think he was born to be editor of a tabloid newspaper.

我覺得他天生就是當小報編輯的料。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The tabloid press kicked up a stink about his seven-day visit.

小報的報道引起民眾對他為期7天的訪問的強烈不滿。

來自柯林斯例句

3. This is a subject for serious, well-informed discussion, not tabloid headlines.

這個主題不同於通俗小報的標題，適合進行嚴肅而深入的討論。

來自柯林斯例句

4. I have an extremely low opinion of the British tabloid newspapers.

我對英國小報完全沒有好感。

來自柯林斯例句

5. His name features frequently in the social columns of the tabloid newspapers.

他的名字頻繁地出現在各種小報社會專欄的顯著位置上。

來自柯林斯例句