telegram
telegram 英 [ˈtelɪgræm] 美 [ˈtɛlɪˌɡræm]
n. 电报 vt. 用电报发送 vi. 发电报
名词复数:telegrams
- A telegram is a message sent by a telegraph, which is also called a wire.
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- n. 电报
- vt. 用电报发送
- vi. 发电报
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1. What do you make of this telegram?
你怎么理解这份电报的意思?
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2. He was not alarmed at receiving the telegram.
他接到这封电报时并不心慌。
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3. He sent his mother a telegram upon his arrival in Beijing.
他一抵达北京就给母亲发了电报。
- 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).
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