screen
英 [skri?n]
美[skrin]
- n. 屏，幕；屏風
- vt. 篩；拍攝；放映；掩蔽
- vi. 拍電影
- n. (Screen)人名；(英)斯克林
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詞態變化
復數:?screens;第三人稱單數:?screens;過去式:?screened;過去分詞:?screened;現在分詞:?screening;
中文詞源
screen 屏風，屏障，紗窗，屏幕，銀屏，電影，篩查，檢查
來自中古英語 scren,擋風屏，爐擋，火爐欄，來自 Proto-Germanic*skirmiz,擋開，屏障，保護， 來自 PIE*sker,砍，切，分開，詞源同 shear,share.引申諸相關詞義及比喻義銀屏，電影等。
英文詞源
- screen
- screen: [15] Screen goes back ultimately to a Frankish *skrank ‘barrier’, a distant ancestor of German schrank ‘cupboard’. This was taken over into Old Northern French as escran, and it was a variant form of this, escren, that became English screen.
- screen (n.)
- mid-14c., "upright piece of furniture providing protection from heat of a fire, drafts, etc.," probably from a shortened (Anglo-French? compare Anglo-Latin screna) variant of Old North French escren, Old French escran "fire-screen" (early 14c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch scherm "screen, cover, shield," or Frankish *skrank "barrier," from Proto-Germanic *skerm- (cognates: Old High German skirm, skerm "protection," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Meaning "net-wire frame used in windows and doors" is recorded from 1859. Meaning "flat vertical surface for reception of projected images" is from 1810, originally in reference to magic lantern shows; later of movies. Transferred sense of "cinema world collectively" is attested from 1914; hence screen test (1918), etc. Screen saver first attested 1990. Screen printing recorded from 1918. - screen (v.)
- "to shield from punishment, to conceal," late 15c., from screen (n.). Meaning "examine systematically for suitability" is from 1943; sense of "to release a movie" is from 1915. Related: Screened; screening.
雙語例句
- 1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
- 選擇防曬護唇膏來增強保護。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A list of items is repeatedly flashed up on the screen.
- 一個選項列表反復出現在屏幕上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
- 麥凱緩緩地朝這個屏幕走來，每走一步心情都更加緊張。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Producers decided to end her on-screen romance with Pierce Lawton.
- 制片人決定結束她在影片中與皮爾斯·勞頓的戀情。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Off-screen, Kathy is under the watchful eye of her father Terry.
- 生活中的凱茜受到父親特里的嚴格看管。
來自柯林斯例句