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To televise something is to show it on television. The key point is that the thing already exists on its own — a football match, a concert, a trial, the president's speech — and television carries it out to viewers. You televise an event; you do not televise a drama series that was made for TV in the first place. Because of that, the word turns up again and again with sport, ceremonies, funerals, debates and court cases. It is a slightly formal, word: a sports fan would more likely say "Is the game on TV?" than "Is the game being televised?", though the second is perfectly normal in writing and in news reports. You will very often meet it in the passive — "the match will be televised live" — and as an adjective, "a televised debate", "live televised coverage".
電視轉播;在電視上播出
組成Made backwards from the noun television. English speakers saw television and assumed there must be a verb behind it, so they made one: televise. Grammarians call this a back-formation — the same way beg was pulled out of beggar, or edit out of editor.
同家族的字
- televisionthe word televise was cut down from
- reviseshares Latin -vis-, 'see' — to look at again
- visionthe same Latin root for seeing
- visiblethe same Latin root for seeing
- telephoneshares Greek tele-, 'far off'
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。
televiseverb/ˈtɛləvaɪz/
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To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
- The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first major events to be televised.
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。