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单词 vj
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VJn.1

/viːdʒeɪ/
Etymology: < the initial letters of Victory over Japan.
Used attributively and absol. to denote the victory of the Allied forces over those of Japan during the war of 1939–45; esp. as VJ-day, designating either the day upon which Japan ceased fighting (14 August 1945) or the day of Japan's formal surrender (2 September 1945).
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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc.
day of truce1486
Evil May Dayc1590
Bonfire Night1661
Pope Day1769
Pope Night1773
the Fourth (of July)1779
Town Taking Day1788
Independence Day1791
Independent Day1803
Guy Fawkes day1825
Bastille Day1837
Trafalgar Day1837
Turkey Day1870
Canada Day1882
Juneteenth1890
flag-day1894
Patriots' Day1894
Remembrance Day1895
twelfth1896
Quatorze Juillet1899
quatorze1915
Armistice Day1918
Poppy Day1921
Remembrance Sunday1925
VJ-day1944
Commonwealth Day1958
society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > a victory > specific
Halleluia victory1683
Alleluia victory1747
VE1944
VJ1944
society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > day or hour of victory > spec
V-Day1941
VJ-day1944
1944 Washington Post 10 Sept. 3/1 James F. Byrne, director of War Mobilization, found a new designation for the two victory days... Last night he referred to the date of Germany's impending surrender as V-E (victory in Europe) Day, and the day of Japan's defeat as V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
1945 Sun (Baltimore) 15 June 1/8 (heading) V-J by Christmas’ amazes Carlson.
1945 Yank 7 Sept. 9 The GIs had managed to keep their VJ spirit bottled up through most of the phony rumors, but when the real thing was popped, the cork popped with a vengeance.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 169 VJ-day was recalled by the Overseas Services in a series of talks.
1968 Listener 19 Dec. 811/3 (caption) Revellers on V-J night.
1974 J. Wainwright Hard Hit 87 My memories ended with the war... Then—less than a week after V.J.—I married James.
1977 Wandsworth Borough News 16 Sept. 12/4 The jubilee street parties are reminiscent of those marvellous V.E. and V.J. celebrations, when pianos were pulled on to the streets and everyone—strangers or not—were welcomed.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 252/1 On VJ night I was Station Duty Officer.
1982 T. Fitzgibbon With Love xi. 176 A little under a month after the first bomb on Hiroshima being dropped, VJ-Day as it was called was officially celebrated on 2 September 1945.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

VJn.2

Brit. /ˈviːˌdʒeɪ/, U.S. /ˈviˌdʒeɪ/
Forms: 1900s– VJ, 1900s– V.J. (with points), 1900s– v.j. (with points).
Origin: Formed within English, as an initialism. Etymon: video jockey n. at video adj. and n. Compounds 2.
Etymology: Initialism < video jockey n. at video adj. and n. Compounds 2, after DJ n.2 Compare earlier veejay n.
Originally U.S.
1. A person who introduces and plays music videos on television.The term was popularized by the television channel MTV.
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1975 Billboard 25 Jan. 52/3 I hereby appoint you Chairman of the Convert DJs to VJs Committee.
1983 Amer. Way June 170/1 VJs, or video jockeys, at MTV's studio cue up as many as 13 videos an hour.
1992 New Yorker 9 Mar. 50/1 Consider the strange case of..one of the original v.j.s a decade ago on MTV.
2003 National Post (Canada) 20 May al 2/3 ‘I've never seen so many b-boys and b-girls in music videos,’ says MuchMusic VJ Jennifer Hollett.
2. A person who uses video or computer technology to produce visual images to accompany music (esp. the performance of a DJ) at a night club or similar venue. Also: a person using such technology to produce images, usually with accompanying audio, as a stand-alone performance. Cf. DJ n.2 2a.
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1982 Billboard 19 June (Disco Dance Music section) 19/1 Susan Gearhart, a DJ and VJ (video jockey) at Washington, D.C.'s 930 Club.
1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals v. 30 He was going to have a VJ as well as a DJ, playing videos which would be projected on to screens above the dance floor.
1997 Face June 69/1 PlayStation..made videos for use by, ahem, club ‘VJ’s.
2008 Time Out N.Y. 30 Oct. 52/1 Presidential video mash-ups courtesy of VJ Michael Richison.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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