喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can hold television as the box with a glowing screen sitting in the living room — the physical machine. From that one object the word spreads outward: first to the thing it shows you (the programmes), then to the act of watching it (on television), then to the whole world of people who make those programmes (the industry).

可以把 television 想成客廳裡那個會發光的螢幕盒子——那台實體機器本身。整個字就從這一樣東西往外擴散：先擴…更多收起可以把 television 想成客廳裡那個會發光的螢幕盒子——那台實體機器本身。整個字就從這一樣東西往外擴散：先擴到它播給你看的內容（節目），再擴到『正在播』這件事（在電視上），最後擴到做這些節目的那一整個圈子（電視業）。

Three branches

那台機器

最具體的一頭：實體的那台盒子。

television (device) · noun · A1

A box-shaped machine with a screen that you watch programmes on.

電視機

螢幕上的內容

從『那台機器』移到『機器放出來的東西』：人們其實常常不是在講盒子，而是在講盒子裡播的內容和『正在播』這件事。

TV programs, shows · noun · A1

The shows and programmes that you watch on a television.

電視節目

做節目的那一行

從『盒子』和『內容』再往外退一大步，看到背後那一整個產業：拍片、製作、放送的人和工作。

television industry · noun · A1

The work or industry of making and showing programmes on television.

電視業

原始詞典資料5 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。

televisionnoun/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

  • 1

    broadcastingmediaAn electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

    • She watched television for over five hours last night.
    • Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”
  • 2

    An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

    • I have an old television in the study.
  • 3

    Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

    • fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
  • 4

    datedVision at a distance.

    • Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.
    • […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country

televisionverb/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

  • 1

    informalTo watch television.

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。