| 释义 |
blue box in British Englishnoun Canadian a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled blue box in American Englishnounan electronic device used to send out signals that unlock long-distance telephone circuits Word origin [1975–80 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: front-load, hybridoma, retrovirus, surrogate mother, videotex |