telegram的意思

英式音标['tɛlɪɡræm]
美式英标['telɪgræm]

基本解释

n. 电报

vt. 用电报发送

vi. 发电报

telegram 电报

tele-,远的，-gram,写，记录，衍生自-graph.引申词义电报。

telegram (n.): "telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett's 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word).
May I suggest to such as are not contented with 'Telegraphic Dispatch' the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.' [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]
Related: Telegrammic.

2. A few days earlier he had received a telegram from Lord Lloyd.: 几天前，他收到劳埃德勋爵发来的一封电报。

3. The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.: 胜利促使他给罗斯福发了封喜报。