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Monitor Sense Type Called U.S Check 2365.Monitor 英

正面 2365.monitor
英 ['mɒnɪtə]美 ['mɔnɪtɚ]

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释义:
n. 监视器;监听器;监控器;显示屏;班长vt. 监控
例句:
1. Officials had not been allowed to monitor the voting.以前不允许官员监督投票。

1. 对于被解雇咱们汉语有“卷铺盖走人”的说法,相应地英语里就有“拿到靴子走人”的说法,可以说是异曲同工。
monitor 显示屏,监视器,班长,监督员来自拉丁语monere,警告,提醒,监视,使记忆,来自PIE*men,思考,考虑,思想,记忆,词源同mania,comment,mind.引申词义学长,班长,监督员等,后也用于指显示屏,监视器等。
monitormonitor: see monstermonitor (n.)1540s, "senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order, etc.," from Latin monitor "one who reminds, admonishes, or checks," also "an overseer, instructor, guide, teacher," agent noun from monere "to admonish, warn, advise," related to memini "I remember, I am mindful of," and to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)). The type of lizard so called because it is supposed to give warning of crocodiles (1826). Meaning "squat, slow-moving type of ironclad warship" (1862) so called from name of the first vessel of this design, chosen by the inventor, Swedish-born U.S. engineer John Ericsson (1803-1889), because it was meant to "admonish" the Confederate leaders in the U.S. Civil War. Broadcasting sense of "a device to continuously check on the technical quality of a transmission" (1931) led to special sense of "a TV screen displaying the picture from a particular camera."monitor (v.)1818, "to guide;" 1924, "to check for quality" (originally especially of radio signals), from monitor (n.). General sense from 1944. Related: Monitored; monitoring."

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