| 释义 |
etaoin shrdlu|ˈɛtəɔɪn ˈʃɜːdluː|
The letters set by running a finger down the first two vertical banks of keys on the left of the keyboard of a Linotype machine, used as a temporary marking slug but sometimes printed by mistake; any badly blundered sequence of type. Also ellipt. etaoin. Cf. shrdlu.
1931J. Thurber Owl in Attic iii. vii. 135 The author sends in a manuscript without exclamation marks. The linotyper puts them in, the author takes them out in proof, the linotyper puts them back in, together with a couple of etaoins. 1967Listener 15 June 793/2 What I love about newspapers is their etaoin shrdl. 1983Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 12/4 ‘Lot of pleasure but also a lot of pleasure but also a lot of anxiety and heart-searching.’ etaoinshrdlu cmfwyp shrdlu cd showed that cinema and per- Mrs Nissel said that the study forming arts ticket prices had more or less remained in line with the Retail Price Index up to 1975/76. |