| 释义 |
televisionary, n. and a. Humorous.|ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒənərɪ|
[Blend of television + visionary a. and n.; in adj. use treated as compound with -ary1.]
A. n.
a. An enthusiast for television.
b. A television personality.
1928Observer 12 Feb. 11/2 Many ‘televisionaries’ have spent fortunes in the quest. 1961A. Clarke Later Poems 94 The Pope forbade the clergy..to indulge in daily amusement. He warned them, too, of the danger of becoming televisionaries. 1962Listener 24 May 924/2 With Dylan Thomas and Gilbert Harding gone, Gwyn Thomas has a great future as a televisionary. 1981Q. Crisp How to become a Virgin 156 Impresarios are frequently asked by televisionaries when some scheme or other first occurred to them.
B. adj. Of, possessing, or induced by television.
1934in Webster s.v. Television. 1937 E. Blunden Elegy 50 The televisionary world to come. 1958Times 5 July 7/2 If, in a televisionary trance, we are induced to buy some commodity for which our waking self has no appetite [etc.]. 1966New Statesman 16 Dec. 917/3 The longish orchestral interludes, which are enough to drive the average televisionary producer to despair. 1980Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 12/1 Televisionary indoctrination in Luanda. |