• n. 相簿；唱片集；集郵簿；簽名紀念冊

來自詞根alb, 白色。原指古時候用來登記姓名，記錄重大事件的白板。

album

album: [17] Latin albus ‘white’ has been the source of a variety of English words: alb ‘ecclesiastical tunic’ [OE], albedo ‘reflective power’ [19], Albion [13], an old word for Britain, probably with reference to its white cliffs, albumen ‘white of egg’ [16], and auburn, as well as albino. Album is a nominalization of the neuter form of the adjective, which was used in classical times for a blank, or white, tablet on which public notices were inscribed.

Its original adoption in the modern era seems to have been in Germany, where scholars kept an album amicorum ‘album of friends’ in which to collect colleagues’ signatures. This notion of an autograph book continues in Dr Johnson’s definition of album in his Dictionary 1755: ‘a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert the autographs of celebrated people’, but gradually it became a repository for all sorts of souvenirs, including in due course photographs.
=> alb, albedo, albino, albumen, auburn, daub

album (n.)

1650s, from Latin album "white color, whiteness," neuter of albus "white" (see alb). In classical times "a blank tablet on which the Pontifex Maximus registered the principal events of the year; a list of names." Revived 16c. by German scholars whose custom was to keep an album amicorum of colleagues' signatures; meaning then expanded into "book to collect souvenirs." According to Johnson, "a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert autographs of celebrated people." Photographic albums first recorded 1859. Meaning "long-playing gramophone record" is by 1951, because the sleeves they came in resembled large albums.

1. The group's debut album was immediately acclaimed a hip hop classic.

這個組合的首張專輯一經推出便被盛贊為嘻哈樂的經典之作。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They are recording a follow-up to their successful 1989 album.

他們正在灌錄他們1989年暢銷專輯的續篇。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional.

他們的第一張專輯是那么的坦率，近乎自白。

來自柯林斯例句

4. "Daring Adventures" from '86 is a far more cohesive and successful album.

1986年發行的《勇于冒險》是一張風格更為統一也更為成功的專輯。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Janet Jackson's new album has been heralded by a massive media campaign.

珍妮·杰克遜的新專輯已經在媒體上進行了大規模宣傳。

來自柯林斯例句