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An Autocue is a machine that shows a speaker the words they must say while they are talking in public, especially on television. The words scroll in front of the camera, so the can look at you and still read the script. It was originally a trademark; in British television people still say Autocue the way some people say Hoover for a vacuum. In American English the everyday word is teleprompter. If the machine fails, you suddenly have to speak from memory — which is why presenters practise looking calm.
提詞機(英國商標名;美國多說 teleprompter。台灣電視圈也說讀稿機)
組成From auto- (“by itself”) + cue (the hint that tells you it is your turn to speak). Originally a trademark.
同家族的字
- cuethe prompt a speaker gets; Autocue is a machine that gives that prompt
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
autocuenoun/ˈɔː.təʊˌkjuː/
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Any of several devices that display words for a person to read aloud.
- It was noticeable that when Kibaki was giving a speech he no longer extemporised or made eye contact with his public, keeping his eyes glued to the autocue.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。