jukebox

• n. 自动唱机

来自美国南部黑人俚语juke,混乱的，不整洁的，用来指路边的小酒馆，小酒吧，box,盒子，音乐盒。类似于卡拉OK的简陋的点唱机，投币后可以唱歌。

jukebox

jukebox: [20] The jukebox – a coin-operated record-player – got its name from being played in jukes; and a juke (or juke-house, or jukejoint), in US Black English slang of the middle years of the 20th century, was a roadhouse providing food and drink, music for dancing, and usually the services of prostitutes. The word probably came from the adjective juke or joog, which meant ‘wicked’ or ‘disorderly’ in the Gullah language, a creolized English of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida; and that in turn may well have originated in some as yet unidentified West African language.

jukebox (n.)

1937, jook organ, from jook joint "roadhouse" (1935), Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida), probably from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory." Said to have originated in central Florida (see "A Note on Juke," Florida Review, vol. VII, no. 3, spring 1938). The spelling with a -u- might represent a deliberate attempt to put distance between the word and its origins.

For a long time the commercial juke trade resisted the name juke box and even tried to raise a big publicity fund to wage a national campaign against it, but "juke box" turned out to be the biggest advertising term that could ever have been invented for the commercial phonograph and spread to the ends of the world during the war as American soldiers went abroad but remembered the juke boxes back home. ["Billboard," Sept. 15, 1945]

1. I learnt to jive there when they got the jukebox.

他们安了自动点唱机后，我在那儿学会了跳摇摆舞。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The waiters mime to records playing on the jukebox.

侍者们配合自动唱机里播放的唱片对口型假唱。

来自柯林斯例句

3. My favorite song is on the jukebox.

自动点唱机在放我最喜欢的歌。

来自柯林斯例句

4. A tango was playing on the jukebox.

点唱机播放着一首探戈舞曲。

来自柯林斯例句

5. A hillbilly love song was on the jukebox.

自动唱机正在放一张乡间情歌唱片.

来自辞典例句