| 单词 | talking machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmastalking machine talking machine n. chiefly U.S. (a) a machine designed to imitate human speech; spec. (the vocal mechanism of) a talking doll (rare); also figurative; (b) a phonograph; a gramophone which reproduces human speech (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > specific sound-producing instruments polyphone1684 talking machine1844 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] talking machine1844 recorder1867 phonograph1877 dictating machine1878 melograph1879 melodiographa1884 graphophone1886 photographophone1901 auxetophone1904 Dictaphone1906 telediphone1931 transcriber1931 wire recorder1934 sound truck1936 high fidelity1938 Soundscriber1946 player1948 rig1950 transcriptor1957 unit1966 sequencer1975 boom box1981 ghetto blaster1983 beat-box1985 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > walking or talking doll > mechanism of talking machine1844 1844 Quincy (Illinois) Herald 9 Feb. 3/2 A German, named Faber,..in New York, has invented and brought to perfection a talking machine. It is played on by keys like a piano, and can be made to say any thing, in any language, that its inventor desires. 1844 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 18 Mar. 38/2 Why don't you go see the Talking Machine, and take little Matilda along with you? 1846 N. P. Willis Compl. Wks. iii. 674/2 I had a half-hour's interview with the talking machine this morning, and found him a more entertaining android than most of my wooden acquaintances. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets No. 1. 52 A redtape Talking-machine and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. 1891 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1890 709/1 In 1886, J. S. Taintor, working along the lines followed by Mr. Edison, produced a talking machine, which was called the graphophone, or phonograph-graphophone. 1897 R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville 110 The little talkin' machine inside it has got out o' fix..an' it don't say ‘papa’ an' ‘mama’ any more. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. July 495/2 The talking-machine has not been brought to such a high pitch of perfection as..the kinematograph. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 181 Cash aimed to buy that talking machine from Suratt with that money. < as lemmas |
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