video

英 ['vɪdɪəʊ] 美['vɪdɪo]

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复数: videos;第三人称单数: videos;过去式: videoed;过去分词: videoed;现在分词: videoing;

video 录像带

来自拉丁语videre,看，词源同visit,evident。

video: video: see visit
video (adj.): 1935, as visual equivalent of audio, from Latin video "I see," first person singular present indicative of videre "to see" (see vision). As a noun, "that which is displayed on a (television) screen," 1937.
Engineers, however, remember the sad fate of television's first debut and are not willing to allow "video transmission" (as television is now called by moderns) to leave the laboratory until they are sure it will be accepted. ["The Michigan Technic," November 1937]
video game is from 1973.

1. I went through about four years of being addicted to video games.: 我大约有4年时间沉迷在电子游戏中。

2. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework.: 汤姆承认玩电子游戏有时会使他无心做作业。

3. Two out of every three Britons already own a video recorder.: 每3个英国人中就有两个已经有了录像机。

4. A technician loads a video tape into one of the machines.: 一名技师把一盒录影带装进其中一台机器。

5. Stricter controls were placed on the content of video films.: 对录像片内容实行了更为严格的监管。