photo: [19] Greek phōs meant ‘light’ (it was related to Sanskrit bhā- ‘shine’). Its stem form phōto- was used by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1839 to coin the term photograph, based on the Greek element -graphos ‘writing’, and perhaps inspired by a parallel German formation photographie which had appeared a little earlier the same year. The word’s living connection with the concept ‘light’ has now been virtually severed, but it still flourishes in, for example, photoelectric [19], photometer [18], photon [20], and photosynthesis [19]. => phosphorus, photon
1860, shortening of photograph. The verb is first recorded 1865, from the noun. Photo finish is attested from 1936. Photo opportunity first recorded 1974.
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1. The popular papers all have photo features on their inside pages.
通俗报纸的内页都有照片专栏.
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2. They said, after digging around, the photo was a fake.
在搜集了有关情况后，他们说照片是伪造的。
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3. I've got a photo of him on the wall.
我在墙上挂了一张他的照片。
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4. On a shelf beneath he spotted a photo album.
他在下面的架子上瞅见了一本相册。
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5. The gift shop's biggest seller is a photo of Nixon meeting Presley.
