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A small music player you carry on your body and listen to through headphones.
A small music player小型音樂播放器 you carry on your body你隨身攜帶 and listen to through headphones用耳機聽。
Sony made the first one in 1979 — a portable cassette player — and it was such a hit that for about twenty years many people called ANY personal portable player a walkman, no matter who made it. That is why it is written both ways: capital W when you mean the Sony product, small w when people use it loosely.
Sony made the first one in 1979新力在1979年做出第一款 — a portable cassette player一款可攜式卡帶播放機 — and it was such a hit它太受歡迎了 that for about twenty years有大約二十年的時間 many people called ANY personal portable player a walkman很多人把任何個人隨身播放器都叫做walkman，no matter who made it不管是哪家廠牌做的。That is why it is written both ways這就是為什麼它有兩種寫法：capital W when you mean the Sony product指Sony產品時大寫W，small w when people use it loosely泛指的時候小寫w。
Later versions played CDs, then MP3s, and the dictionary sense here is the MP3 one. In real life today the word is mostly historical or nostalgic: young people carry phones, and if you say "walkman" they will picture something from their parents' time.
Later versions played CDs, then MP3s後來的版本播放CD、再來是MP3，and the dictionary sense here is the MP3 one這裡字典指的就是MP3那個意思。In real life today如今在現實生活裡 the word is mostly historical or nostalgic這個字大多帶著歷史感或懷舊感：young people carry phones年輕人都帶手機，and if you say "walkman" they will picture something from their parents' time如果你說「walkman」他們會想到父母那個年代的東西。
The plural is — Sony said Walkmans, but plenty of people say Walkmen as a joke, and careful writers just avoid it.
The plural is unsettled複數形式沒有定論 — Sony said Walkmans新力自己說是Walkmans，but plenty of people say Walkmen as a joke但很多人開玩笑說Walkmen，and careful writers just avoid it謹慎的作者則乾脆避開這個詞。
組成walk + man. Sony coined it after an earlier product called the Pressman, a small tape recorder for reporters — so the -man ending is copied from that, not from any idea of a man walking. The MP3-player meaning is a genericized trademark: a brand name that spread to the whole product type.
同家族的字
- walkthe first half — the idea is music you can take with you while walking
原始詞典資料6 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。
Walkmanname
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A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line.
- He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable finding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable) and pulls out today’s newspaper.
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A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players.
- Outside the toilets school parties from France and Germany stood in stiff groups photographing themselves. They talked loudly without removing their Walkmans. Their headsets sizzled and tished.
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derogatoryA street urchin.
walkmannoun
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A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
- Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.
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informalPigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
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。