You can picture a blank book of empty pages, kept just for one purpose — a bound collection where you gather a set of related things together in one place, in order.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'album', a blank white tablet (from 'albus', white) on which public notices were written; the idea of a blank surface kept for collecting things carried into the modern 'collection book'.
源自拉丁文 album，原指一塊空白的白板(出自 albus「白色」)，古羅馬在上面公告事項。這個「留白、用來收集記錄」的概念延伸成今天「收藏冊」的核心。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'album'
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
albumnoun/ˈælbəm/
- 1
historicalIn Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
- 2
A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.
- 3
A collection, especially of literary items.
- This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).
- 4
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
- 5
A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
- 6
A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
- When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.
- His albums are very popular on Spotify.
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