| 单词 | cassette |
| 释义 | cassette (once / 11140 pages) n A cassette is an audiotape, for recording or listening to sound. Before CDs were invented in the 1980s, many people bought their favorite music albums on cassettes. You can use the word cassette to mean an audio or a videotape, though it's more commonly used for something you listen to. To use a cassette, you need a tape player or recorder. Cassette means "little box" in French, and this describes the way it looks, like a small plastic box. The modern meaning came about in 1960. WORD FAMILYcassette: cassettes USAGE EXAMPLESThe scenes that my older brother and I watched on a pirated video cassette of “Once Upon a Time in America” seemed familiar to us. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) “He was my biggest fan,” Rowe said, noting that Jones used to spend days dancing to one of his band’s cassette tapes. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) On Nov. 24, 1986, a young man approached Zerafa and thrust him an envelope containing a cassette and a Polaroid. Salon(Dec 04, 2016) n a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video Hypo|Hyper audiocassette a cassette for audiotape videocassettea cassette for videotape container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
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