broadcast

英 ['br??dkɑ?st] 美['br?dk?st]

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broadcast: broadcast: [18] Broadcast was originally an adjective and adverb, and meant literally ‘scattered widely’, particularly in the context of sowing seeds. A metaphorical sense developed in the late 18th and 19th centuries (William Stubbs, in his Constitutional History of England 1875 writes of ‘broadcast accusations’), and the word was ready in the early 1920s for application to the transmission of radio signals (the first actual record of such a use is as a verb, in the April 1921 issue of Discovery: ‘The [radio] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships’).
broadcast: 1767, adjective, in reference to the spreading of seed, from broad (adj.) + past participle of cast (v.). Figurative use is recorded from 1785. Modern media use began with radio (1922, adjective and noun). As a verb, recorded from 1813 in an agricultural sense, 1829 in a figurative sense, 1921 in reference to radio.

1. More cash will be saved by shutting studios and selling outside-broadcast vehicles.: 通過關閉演播室和出售實況轉播車將節省更多資金。

2. The BBC Radio 2 Roadshow will broadcast live from the exhibition.: 英國廣播電臺第二頻道的路演將會進行現場直播。

3. Broadcast news was accurate and reliable but deadly dull.: 新聞廣播準確可靠但卻非常枯燥。

5. The press conference was broadcast live on Polish television.: 波蘭電視臺現場直播了記者招待會。