| 词组 | telecast, televise |
| 释义 | telecast, televise Bergen Evans was a man with considerable experience of the world of television, and Evans 1957 notes a distinction in the meaning of these words: • [Telecast] means to broadcast by television. Televise, on the other hand, means to record by means of television apparatus and to broadcast what is so recorded. In other words, the idea of broadcasting is secondary in televise to the idea of photographing (we would now say "videotaping") by means of a television camera. This distinction in meaning has, in fact, been observed in the past: • Models being televised in the afternoon before the show went on. Station WNBQ telecasted on Monday, July 18, a complete showing of nine models — Fur News, September 1949 But it is doubtful that anyone observes it now. Both telecast and televise now usually mean "to broadcast by television": • ... the network decided to telecast only the first, as a one-time special —Carey Winfrey, N.Y. Times, 17 Aug. 1980 • ... when presentation of the Tony awards was televised, an audience estimated at 40,000,000 people saw her perform —Current Biography, April 1968 • The great expense in televising programs coast to coast —Les Brown, Saturday Rev., 16 Sept. 1978 Televise has been used with this meaning since it was first coined, as one of our earliest citations for it shows: • ... the usual broadcast sounds are received first and then the radio announcer will say, "We shall now televise the face of our next singer...." —Science and Invention, October 1928 A dictionary editor who read this citation in 1930 wrote on it "Fairly rare and I think ephemeral," which shows, in case anyone was wondering, that lexicographers have no special standing as prophets. |
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