| 释义 |
pre-ˈecho
[pre- A. 2.]
1. A faint copy of a louder sound occurring in a recording shortly before the original as a result of the accidental transfer of signals in a recording medium.
1935Gramophone June 42/2 It appears to be not ‘an echo’ in the strict sense of the word, but a ‘pre-echo’, as in all the examples I list below it occurs before the actual recording grooves are reached by the needle. 1956[see post-echo]. 1957N.Y. Times 24 Feb. x. 15/1 Engineers say that a disk should not contain much more music than that;..the grooves will have to run too closely together with additional minutes;..there will be pre-echo, damage and results too ghastly to contemplate. 1962Times 5 July 15/7 Prolonged storage [of tape] without rewinding..can cause ‘print-through’ (detectable as pre-echo on some discs). 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in England i. 21 The phenomenon of pre-echo on magnetic tape. 1976Gramophone Sept. 445/3 It certainly avoids pre-echoes in silent bars immediately followed by fortissimi.
2. A foreshadowing or anticipation.
1948Mind LVII. 375 Professor Raphael..commends Price's refutation of the ‘naturalistic fallacy’ (a pre-echo of G. E. Moore's). 1961Times 29 May 12/7 Is this a mere pre-echo of My Fair Lady? 1975Listener 20 Nov. 674/1 The most fascinating political pre-echo since the boy Harold Wilson had his photo taken on the steps of Number Ten. 1977Gramophone July 187/2 What an extraordinary pre-echo of Brahms this second piece becomes in this performance. |