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单词 telly
释义
tellytel‧ly /ˈteli/ ●○○ noun (plural tellies) [countable, uncountable] British English informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtelly
Origin:
1900-2000 television
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • It's true, I saw it on some show on the telly.
  • We've just bought a new telly.
  • You can watch telly after you've done your homework.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And the only man in a dress on telly was Les Dawson.
  • But what would we watch on telly when bowlers finished matches early?
  • If he didn't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds.
  • If they think of history, it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching.
  • It was back to square one: telly 24 hours a day.
  • That Aussie on the telly championing the Outback is merely praising its warm-weather virtue.
  • There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit.
  • They work so well in most of his sharp, documentary-style insights on the telly.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatortelevision
also TV informal the system of broadcasting pictures and sound, or the programmes that are broadcast in this way: · Television brings events like the Olympic games into millions of homes.· the educational uses of televisionwatch television/TV: · Nearly 80% of children watch TV after school.· People who watch a lot of television are more likely to be heavy.on television/TV: · Kids have to learn that toys they see advertised on TV might not be as much fun as they look.television/TV programme/show/series etc: · American television news programs are getting worse and worse.· a description of the fall season's new TV shows
British spoken the programmes that are broadcast on television or your television set: · It's true, I saw it on some show on the telly.watch (the) telly: · You can watch telly after you've done your homework.on telly: · Is there anything good on telly tonight?
British informal /the tube American informal use this to talk about programmes on television or people's television sets: · The hours spent in front of the tube mean that children aren't participating in other forms of entertainment.on the box/tube: · What's on the box?
television - use this especially when you are comparing television to films: · I had seen the movie before, but it didn't look as good on the small screen.· It's one of the best shows ever seen on the small screen.
WORD SETS
aerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· It's really weird seeing yourself on telly.· These people wanted to see the Skeldale House they saw on the telly.· You see it on telly, it goes down in sections and crumples in a huge cloud of dust.· She's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly - you know, all slow and graceful like.· I saw it on the telly before I was banged up.· She had seen him on the telly - he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet.· I saw them on telly at my mate's house.
· Once inside No. 23, David turned on the telly.· Crilly turns off the telly and puts on a Billie Holiday record.
· But what would we watch on telly when bowlers finished matches early?· Why do we want to watch traffic jams on telly?· Do the bottom shuffle while watching telly.· I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff.· It seemed like she wasn't really watching the figures on telly though.· She just carries on watching the telly.· The shift finishes at 2.30am, just as Britain is washing up or settling down on the sofa to watch the telly.· They wanted to get home to watch telly.
televisionon telly Is there anything good on telly tonight?
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