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单词

telegraph

读音
ˈtelɪɡræf
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英式
词根

"Telegraph"是由两个希腊词根组成的, "tele-" 表示"远", "-graph" 表示"写"。因此, "telegraph"本字面意思是"远程写作",用来描述一种远程通信方式。 其它与这些词根相关的单词举例:telephone (电话), telescope (望远镜), telegram (电报), paragraph (段落), autograph (亲笔签名)

释义

n. [通信] 电报机,电报 vt. 电汇;流露出;打电报给… vi. 打电报 [ 复数 telegraphs 第三人称单数 telegraphs 现在分词 telegraphing 过去式 telegraphed 过去分词 telegraphed ]

例句

Now I must telegraph your father to come.
现在我必须发电报叫你父亲来。
A new telegraph line has been set up between the two cities.
那两个城市之间架设了一条新的电报线。
In the United States, they included such firms as American Telephone and Telegraph, General Electric, and Westinghouse.
在美国,这些公司包括美国电话电报公司、通用电气公司和西屋电气公司。

强化记忆

你可以通过"远程写作"这个意象来记住这个单词,想象一下在旧时代,人们通过电报在远程传递信息的场景,就能帮助你记住这个单词。"Telegraph"这个单词最早出现在1794年,最初用于描述光学电报,即利用光学装置在长距离之间传送视觉信息。19世纪中叶,电力电报的发明使这个词的含义进一步具体化为远程发送编码信息。

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Television? No.Telegraph? No.Telephone? No.
through shipping, through trains,through telegraph, through the Internet,until now we seem to form a single global brain
and a single storm could produce a food shortage.Once we had radio and telegraph networks,all that was necessary to solve these problems
And these hackers had a wordfor those mysterious bugs in telegraph systemsthat they called bugs.
During the Carrington Event,the only widespread electrical technology was the telegraph.But since then, we've only become more dependent on electrical systems.
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