screen: [15] Screen goes back ultimately to a Frankish *skrank ‘barrier’, a distant ancestor of German schrank ‘cupboard’. This was taken over into Old Northern French as escran, and it was a variant form of this, escren, that became English screen.
screen (n.)
mid-14c., "upright piece of furniture providing protection from heat of a fire, drafts, etc.," probably from a shortened (Anglo-French? compare Anglo-Latin screna) variant of Old North French escren, Old French escran "fire-screen" (early 14c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch scherm "screen, cover, shield," or Frankish *skrank "barrier," from Proto-Germanic *skerm- (cognates: Old High German skirm, skerm "protection," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Meaning "net-wire frame used in windows and doors" is recorded from 1859. Meaning "flat vertical surface for reception of projected images" is from 1810, originally in reference to magic lantern shows; later of movies. Transferred sense of "cinema world collectively" is attested from 1914; hence screen test (1918), etc. Screen saver first attested 1990. Screen printing recorded from 1918.
screen (v.)
"to shield from punishment, to conceal," late 15c., from screen (n.). Meaning "examine systematically for suitability" is from 1943; sense of "to release a movie" is from 1915. Related: Screened; screening.
雙語例句
1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
選擇防曬護唇膏來增強保護。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A list of items is repeatedly flashed up on the screen.
一個選項列表反復(fù)出現(xiàn)在屏幕上。
來自柯林斯例句
3. McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
麥凱緩緩地朝這個屏幕走來，每走一步心情都更加緊張。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Producers decided to end her on-screen romance with Pierce Lawton.
制片人決定結(jié)束她在影片中與皮爾斯·勞頓的戀情。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Off-screen, Kathy is under the watchful eye of her father Terry.