| 单词 | jukebox |
| 释义 | jukebox (once / 17537 pages) n A jukebox is a machine that plays a song when you insert money. They’re rare now, but according to Joan Jett, in some places you can still “put another dime in the jukebox, baby” if you love rock and roll. In the 1930’s, a juke was a small restaurant where people could eat, drink, and dance. “Juking” meant getting rowdy. When a music vending machine came along, people called it a jukebox because they could crank up the music and get rowdy. It's a large, cabinet-type device that you put money in and choose a song. Back in the day, a 45” vinyl single would play, and then there were CDs, but now that everything’s digital, jukeboxes have become quaint. WORD FAMILYjukebox: jukeboxes USAGE EXAMPLESThe leather jacket he’d worn and the jukebox from “Faith.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) They laugh and haltingly converse until closing time, when Kevin turns to the jukebox. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) An Internet jukebox regularly fills the bare-bones space with music, sometimes by musicians south of the border and sometimes by Madonna. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) n a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin Syn|Hyper nickelodeon phonograph, record player machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically |
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