• n. 胶带；磁带；带子；卷尺
• vt. 录音；用带子捆扎；用胶布把…封住
• vi. 用磁带录音
• n. (Tape)人名；(英)泰普

来自古英语 taeppe,小布条，布带，可能来自拉丁语 tapete,布料，毯子，来自希腊语 tapes,纺 织品，布料，毯子，来自 PIE*temp,拉，伸，来自 PIE*ten,拉，伸，词源同 extend,tense.引申 诸相关词义。

tape (n.)

Old English tæppe "narrow strip of cloth used for tying, measuring, etc.," of uncertain origin; perhaps [Klein] a back-formation from Latin tapete "cloth, carpet," compare also Old Frisian tapia, Middle Low German tapen "to pull, pluck, tear." The original short vowel became long in Middle English.

Adhesive tape is from 1885; also in early use sometimes friction tape. Tape recorder "device for recording sound on magnetic tape" first attested 1932; from earlier meaning "device for recording data on ticker tape" (1892), from tape in the sense of "paper strip of a printer" (1884). Tape-record (v.) is from 1950. Tape-measure is attested from 1873; tape-delay is from 1968.

tape (v.)

c. 1600, "furnish with tape," from tape (n.). Meaning "attach with adhesive tape" is from 1932; meaning "to make a tape recording" is from 1950. Related: Taped; taping.

1. A technician loads a video tape into one of the machines.

一名技师把一盒录影带装进其中一台机器。

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2. It would be uneconomical to send a brand new tape.

寄一盘新磁带过去不合算。

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3. He wore a hidden microphone to secretly tape-record conversations.

他身上藏了一个传声器，打算偷偷录下谈话内容。

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4. Using silver tape, they taped all the doors and windows shut.

他们用银色的胶带将所有的门窗都封起来了。

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5. The tape had run to the end but recorded nothing.

磁带已经转到头了，但是什么也没录上。

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