1670s, from head (n.) in sense "heading of a book or chapter" (c. 1200) + line (n.). Originally a printers' term for the line at the top of a page containing the title and page number; used of the lines that form the title of a newspaper article from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.
雙語例句
1. The Daily Mail has the headline "The Voice of Conscience"
《每日郵報》的頭版標題為“良知的聲音”。
來自柯林斯例句
2. If you are a celebrity, you are headline news.
如果你是名人，你就是頭條新聞。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The newspaper's headline indicates that there was a trade-off at the summit.
報紙的大字標題表明峰會上大家作出了妥協。
來自柯林斯例句
4. 'Carnage at Airport ', screamed the tabloid headline.
通俗小報的標題聳人聽聞: “ 機場喋血”.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Today's front page of The Sun carries a banner headline "The adulterer, the bungler and the joker."