| 单词 |
Victrola |
| 释义 |
Victrola|vɪkˈtrəʊlə|
Also victrola.
[f. the name of the Victor Talking Machine Co. + -ola.]
The proprietary name of a kind of gramophone.
1905E. Johnson Let. 9 June in Amer. Speech (1961) XXXVI. 116 The word Victrola is similar to nothing I have ever heard of and seems to me to have a sound suggestive of music, and would in all probability be the best word to use. 1906Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Jan. 644/2 Victor Talking Machine Company... Filed Dec. 1, 1905. Victrola. 1906Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 May 628 Victrola 279,292. Philosophical instruments, scientific instruments, and apparatus for useful purposes. 1916‘J. Webster’ Dear Enemy 318 The children..had a lot of new records for the victrola. 1937N. Coward Present Indicative vi. 259 A tall Renaissance chair with a red velvet cushion under which lived an electric victrola. 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden 374 He bought a Victor victrola..and he went regularly to see what new records had come in. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xvii. 259, I found an old phonograph. It was literally a Victrola, a 1904 Victor. |
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