wayback machine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.
    — I can't set Mr. Peabody's wayback machine to July 1, 1863, and take my entire class of fifth graders on a field trip to show them what the Battle of Gettysburg was like. I don't have a wayback machine.

词形变化

wayback machines plural

词源

From the WABAC machine in the animated cartoon Mister Peabody, from way back (“long ago”). According to Gerard Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the spelling was a reference to the UNIVAC I computer.
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