中文词源
transistor 晶体管
合成自 transfer,转移，resistor,电阻器。因该电子元件通过电阻器转移电流而得名。
英语词源
- transistor (n.)
- small electronic device, 1948, from transfer + resistor, so called because it transfers an electrical current across a resistor. Said to have been coined by U.S. electrical engineer John Robinson Pierce (1910-2002) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., where the device was invented in 1947. It took over many functions of the vacuum tube. Transistor radio is first recorded 1958.
权威例句
- 1. This make of transistor radio is small and beautifully designed.
- 这半导体收音机小巧玲珑.
- 2. She took her transistor everywhere with her.
- 她去哪里都带着晶体管收音机.
- 3. This transistor radio has four small cells.
- 这台半导体收音机用4节小电池.
- 4. Every transistor has at least three electrodes.
- 每个晶体管至少有三个电极.
- 5. Hundreds of people huddled around a single transistor radio listening to the announcement.
- 数百人挤在一台晶体管收音机周围收听公告。