英 ['i:me?l]
美['i,mel]
- 電子郵件
- 電子函件
CET4
詞態變化
復數:?e-mails;第三人稱單數:?e-mails;過去式:?e-mailed;過去分詞:?e-mailed;現在分詞:?e-mailing;
助記提示
1、electronic + mail.
2. 音譯“伊妹兒”。
2. 音譯“伊妹兒”。
英文詞源
- 1982, short for electronic mail (1977; see electronic + mail (n.1)); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail (1983) to the old system.
Even aerial navigation in 1999 was found too slow to convey and deliver the mails. The pneumatic tube system was even swifter, and with such facilities at hand it is not surprising that people in San Francisco received four daily editions of the Manhattan journals, although the distance between Sandy Hook and the Golden Gate is a matter of 3,600 miles. ["Looking Forward," Arthur Bird, 1899]
Associated Press style guide collapsed it to email 2011.
雙語例句
- 1. Bruce Springsteen has re-hired his muso collective, the E Street Band.
- 布魯斯·斯普林斯汀重新組建了他的音樂團隊，E街樂隊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Large supplemental doses of vitamin E can slightly raise blood pressure.
- 大劑量補充維生素E可能會造成血壓偏高。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. These reactive mole-cules are mopped up and made harmless by Vitamin E.
- 這些活性分子已被維生素E滅活，沒有害處了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Passes are graded from "A" down to "E".
- 及格分為A到E幾等。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. "O.O.B.E." is short for "Out Of Body Experience".
- O.O.B.E.是OutOfBodyExperience（身外體驗）的縮略形式。
來自柯林斯例句