You can picture audio as the 'hearing side' of things — anything that reaches you through your ears rather than your eyes. The Latin root means 'to hear', so audio is simply the sound channel: what you listen to, split off from what you watch.

可以想成 audio 就是事物的「聽覺那一面」——所有經由耳朵、而不是眼睛傳進來的東西。它的拉丁字根就是「聽」,所以 audio 講的其實是「聲音這條線路」:你用聽的那部分,和你用看的那部分分開來。

From the word’s history

From the word-forming element audio-, from Latin audire 'to hear' (PIE root *au- 'to perceive'); it broke off as a standalone word around 1934 with new sound technology. The 'hearing' root is exactly the modern core.

源自構詞元素 audio-,來自拉丁文 audire「聽、聽見」(PIE 字根 *au-「感知」);約 1934 年隨著錄音/廣播技術興起,才從前綴獨立成一個字。「聽」這個字根,正好就是它今天的核心。

etymonline.com/word/audio (Online Etymology Dictionary)

One branch

和聲音有關的

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

of sound/recording · adjective · B1

Relating to sound, especially recorded or broadcast sound.

音訊的;聲音的

原始詞典資料3 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。

audioadj/ˈɔːdi.əʊ/

  • 1

    Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

    • If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).
    • I'm very audio, so I hear words.

audionoun/ˈɔːdi.əʊ/

  • 1

    Sound, or a sound signal.

  • 2

    A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.

    • I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
    • Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.

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