breadbox

名词 n.
/ˈbɹɛd.bɒks/    /ˈbɹɛd.bɑks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh.
  2. A Commodore 64 computer. slang
    — We had a computer at school, a Commodore 64. The thing had hardly any memory, not even one thousandth of an mp3-player kids use nowadays. To load a game you had to insert a cassette which transmitted a code by means of an endless series of beeps to a brown case we called "the bread box".

词形变化

breadboxes plural bread box alternative bread-box alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braudą
Proto-West Germanic *braud
Old English brēad
Middle English bred
English bread
English box
English breadbox
From bread + box.
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