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单词 victrola
释义

Victrolan.

Brit. /vɪkˈtrəʊlə/, U.S. /vɪkˈtroʊlə/
Forms: Also victrola.
Etymology: < the name of the Victor Talking Machine Co. + -ola suffix2.
The proprietary name of a kind of gramophone.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment
phonograph1877
gramophone1887
Victrola1905
record player1913
box1916
radio phonograph1922
phono1925
Panatrope1926
radio-gramophone1927
radiogram1929
hi-fi1938
player1948
music centre1956
lo-fi1957
stereogram1958
gram1959
mid-fi1960
stereo1964
unit audio1966
wind-up1975
1905 E. Johnson Let. 9 June in Amer. Speech (1961) XXXVI. 116 The word Victrola is similar to nothing I have ever heard of and seems to me to have a sound suggestive of music, and would in all probability be the best word to use.
1906 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Jan. 644/2 Victor Talking Machine Company... Filed Dec. 1, 1905. Victrola.
1906 Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 May 628 Victrola 279,292. Philosophical instruments, scientific instruments, and apparatus for useful purposes.
1916 J. Webster Dear Enemy 318 The children..had a lot of new records for the victrola.
1937 N. Coward Present Indicative vi. 259 A tall Renaissance chair with a red velvet cushion under which lived an electric victrola.
1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden 374 He bought a Victor victrola..and he went regularly to see what new records had come in.
1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xvii. 259 I found an old phonograph. It was literally a Victrola, a 1904 Victor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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