picturephone(n.)
"视频电话",1964年,来自 picture(n.)+ phone(n.1)。
Buck Rogers thought it up more than 25 years ago, and Bell System has been working on it here for 15 years. Now it's here.
It is called Picturephone, and it is a small television camera and receiver that allows telephone users to gaze into the features of the person they are talking to.
Whether this really is a boon to mankind remains to be seen.
["Picturephones Are On The Way," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 28, 1970]
巴克·罗杰斯(Buck Rogers)在25年前就想到了这个想法,贝尔系统在此已经研究了15年。现在它已经来了。
它被称为 Picturephone,是一个小型电视摄像头和接收器,允许电话用户凝视他们正在通话的人的面容。
这是否真的对人类有益,还有待观察。
【“Picturephones Are On The Way”,圣路易斯邮报,1970年8月28日】
该词起源时间:1964年