1N-COUNT 电视(机) A television or television set is a piece of electrical equipment consisting of a box with a glass screen on it on which you can watch programmes with pictures and sounds. 电视(机)
She turned the television on and flicked around between news programmes.
她打开电视,来回换台看不同的新闻节目。
SYN TV, telly [British, informal], small screen [informal], the box [British, informal]
2N-UNCOUNT 电视Television is the system of sending pictures and sounds by electrical signals over a distance so that people can receive them on a television in their home. 电视
Toy manufacturers began promoting some of their products on television.
玩具制造商开始在电视上推销他们的一些产品。
Television is increasingly being transmitted by satellites.
越来越多的电视节目通过卫星进行转播。
3N-UNCOUNT 电视节目Television refers to all the programmes that you can watch. 电视节目
I don't have much time to watch very much television.
我没有太多时间可泡在电视上。
4N-UNCOUNT 电视广播业;电视行业Television is the business or industry concerned with making programmes and broadcasting them on television. 电视广播业;电视行业
British commercial television has been steadily losing its lead as the most advanced sector of the industry in Europe.
英国商业电视在逐步失去其作为欧洲电视广播业最先进部分的领先地位。
Quotations
Television tells a story in a way that requires no imaginationWitold Rybczynski
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good bookGroucho Marx
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongsAlfred Hitchcock