时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英语新闻


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   The inventor whose device enabled people to watch TV without ever having to get up to change the channel has died.


  Eugene Polley, who developed the first wireless 1 television remote control, was 96-years-old when he died Sunday in Chicago.
  Polley was an engineer with Zenith Electronics in 1955 when he built a hand-held box that pointed 2 a beam of light at the television set. The box let viewers change channels and turn the set on and off, alleviating 3 the need to get up to walk to the TV.
  Over the years, the remote control has gone from a novel luxury to what many people consider a necessity.
  During his 47-year career as an engineer, Polley earned 18 U.S. patents. His other innovations include push-button car radios and the video disc - the forerunner 4 of today's DVDs.

adj.无线的;n.无线电
  • There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
  • Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
减轻,缓解,缓和( alleviate的现在分词 )
  • If it's alleviating pain,who knows what else it's doing? 如果它减轻了疼痛,天知道还影响什么?
  • Measuring poverty is not the same as alleviating it, of course. 当然,衡量贫困和减轻贫困是截然不同的。
n.前身,先驱(者),预兆,祖先
  • She is a forerunner of the modern women's movement.她是现代妇女运动的先驱。
  • Penicillin was the forerunner of modern antibiotics.青霉素是现代抗生素的先导。
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