| 单词 |
-phone |
| 释义 |
-phone|fəʊn| ad. Gr. ϕων-ή voice, ϕῶν-ος sounding. 1. Used in the sense ‘sound’ in the names of various instruments (scientific and musical), as gramophone, magnetophone, megaphone, mellophone, microphone, vibraphone. 2. Used in the sense ‘speaker of’ or ‘-speaking’ in the formation of nouns and adjectives from Latinate combining forms of names of peoples and languages, as Anglophone, Bulgarophone, francophone n. and a., Turcophone.
1900Anglophone [see francophone n. and a.]. 1937Bulgarophone [see Exarchist]. 1977Times Litt. Suppl. 18 Mar. 295/5 His description of Turcophones in Iran (of whom he is one) as a ‘nation’. |
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