這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “boob tube”
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- 2boob tube · the television電視（帶貶意的老俗語）One way to hold this one: an old television set with a glass picture tube inside it, glowing in a dark room,…
boob tube · strapless stretchy top
nounHere the picture is simply a tube of cloth. A wide band, pulled on and left sitting around the chest, with nothing over the shoulders holding it up. Both halves of the name are doing plain descriptive work: what shape it is, and where it sits.
From the word’s history
The clothing sense is explained as a tube-like garment covering the breasts, first appearing around 1977.
衣服這個意思，來源說明是「一件管子形狀、圍住胸部的衣服」，大約在 1977 年第一次出現。
Wiktionary, "boob tube"
boob tube · the television
nounOne way to hold this one: an old television set with a glass picture tube inside it, glowing in a dark room, and somebody sitting in front of it who has stopped thinking. The name is a joke made at both ends of that picture, at the box and at the viewer. Because the picture tube itself has gone, the expression now carries the smell of an earlier time.
From the word’s history
The television sense is explained as boob (a fool, and the supposed audience) plus tube (the cathode ray picture tube in sets of that time), first appearing around 1959.
電視這個意思，來源說明是 boob（傻瓜，指節目和它假設的觀眾）加上 tube（當年電視機裡的映像管），大約在 1959 年第一次出現。
Wiktionary, "boob tube"