photo: [19] Greek phōs meant ‘light’ (it was related to Sanskrit bhā- ‘shine’). Its stem form phōto- was used by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1839 to coin the term photograph, based on the Greek element -graphos ‘writing’, and perhaps inspired by a parallel German formation photographie which had appeared a little earlier the same year. The word’s living connection with the concept ‘light’ has now been virtually severed, but it still flourishes in, for example, photoelectric [19], photometer [18], photon [20], and photosynthesis [19]. => phosphorus, photon
photo (n.)
1860, shortening of photograph. The verb is first recorded 1865, from the noun. Photo finish is attested from 1936. Photo opportunity first recorded 1974.
雙語例句
1. The popular papers all have photo features on their inside pages.
通俗報(bào)紙的內(nèi)頁都有照片專欄.
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2. They said, after digging around, the photo was a fake.
在搜集了有關(guān)情況后，他們說照片是偽造的。
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3. I've got a photo of him on the wall.
我在墻上掛了一張他的照片。
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4. On a shelf beneath he spotted a photo album.
他在下面的架子上瞅見了一本相冊。
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5. The gift shop's biggest seller is a photo of Nixon meeting Presley.