| 单词 | on the record |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the record d. on the record: officially, openly. to go on the record: to record or be recorded officially. Also (usually hyphenated) as adj. Cf. off the record at Phrases 10. ΚΠ 1920 Boston Sunday Globe 4 July 13/3 Right here let it go on the record that Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas is as good a chairman as any convention ever had. 1937 Tempo Sept. 1/1 Members of the Local's board of directors will hereafter go ‘on the record’ as to how they vote on the matters coming before the board. 1942 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 28 633 The news conference, on the record or off it, affects the news story at its source. 1964 Time 19 June 97 People have told us, on the record, that they'd rather get Canadian Club than any other whisky. 1973 Times 17 Dec. 14/4 An unattributable criticism of the oil companies by one minister was followed next day by an on-the-record reversal. 1997 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. iv. 15/1 Kennedy loyalists are still in denial, but the stack of on-the-record interviews will be hard to refute. 2004 Daily Tel. 24 June 17/5 The trauma of the post Hutton environment could still be felt yesterday in the reluctance of BBC staff to talk on the record. < as lemmas |
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